Even in a time of coronavirus, the Berkshires are a deeply creative place. Actors and dancers are creating new work. Artists are teaching workshops. Farmers markets are moving online. BTW has been gathering them in one virtual space.
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Remember the feel of clay or wool or hand drumming
We have a chance to touch this weekend, and listen, and taste. Artists and artisans are coming out, with care, to show their work, from Hancock Shaker Village to Hilltown6 potters to the Lenox Art Walk …
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Living history adapts in 2020
Robert Crighton planted the gardens here on the ridge. He tended the magnolia and the sweet bay hedge. On a summer day the Madame Colbert white roses would be covered in bees. …
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Don’t Touch the Art — performance moves from pain to healing
Raw, and difficult, and reaching for joy — somewhere trauma is etched in paint as a community breaths towards wholeness, and art offers a space for holding and healing …
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Ground/Work gathers international artists at the Clark
Songbirds were flying through the sculpture. … I was walking slowly along Analia Saban’s Teaching a Cow How to Draw, one of the six new works in the Clark Art Institute’s first outdoor sculpture show, Ground/Work.
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Coral fountains and pearl pools: Berkshire museums turn outdoors
Stone blocks stand in rough steps, the color of quartz and clam shells … Art OMI has installed new work this summer, as museums are adapting their gardens and grounds, virtual content and outdoor artwork.
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Bridge sustainability program brings a generous harvest
Berkshire families are connecting with local farms and harvesting their own gardens, in a new food sustainability program Multicultural Bridge has grown in the the pandemic.
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Wendy Red Star imagines the past and future of the Apsáalooke
Commanders and ambassadors who fought to keep their people alive hold a central place in nationally recognized artist Wendy Red Star’s exhibit at Mass MoCA, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
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BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood
BodySonnet, a new collective of dancers, returns to the Berkshires from New York City, drawing on Chesterwood and Andromeda for inspiration.
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Farmers markets find hybrid models fertile
In Pittsfield on a September day, you might have heard Yo-yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax give a pop-up concert, as volunteers prepared orders of new potatoes, ginger and honey. Across the Berkshires, farmers markets are adapting to a new world.
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A gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground
W.E.B. DuBois traveled the world in his lifetime. He helped to shape ideals of independence in Africa and freedom and democracy in America. And I have begun to get to know him in the Berkshires, where he was born.
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A shining light touches ‘chill minds, rigorously averted’
Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence forms around the tension between a creative and honest and passionate woman and man who resists and retreats to a closed society.
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The Mount muses on 100 years of the Age of Innocence
100 years ago, Edith Wharton wrote the Age of Innocence in a world shaken by war, pandemic and economic collapse, and this summer, writers and readers around the world are finding her work timely.
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Spring Street adapts to changing pandemic conditions
Spring Street has changed in a summer of Covid-19. Shops are reopening, and restaurants and even the Clark Art Institute are expanding outdoors, but as students prepare to return to campus, local businesses deal with constant shifts.
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