A quiet walk in Lenox years ago has changed many lives. Mass Audobon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary is celebrating its 90th year in Lenox.
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Choreographer Camille A. Brown explores humanity and superpowers in ‘Ink’
A man and a woman rest their heads together, forehead to temple. Two young men lean shoulder to shoulder, looking up, as though they’re finding light in the night sky. In Bessie awardwinning choreographer Camille A. Brown’s Ink, they are superheroes set to fly.
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‘American Underground’ looks into a hard near future at Barrington Stage
In a not very distant future, a new underground railroad has formed to help Muslim Americans, in American Underground at Barrington Stage Company.
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National Arab Orchestra’s Takht Ensemble performs ecstatic music
The ecstasy musicians feel as they play is tarab in Arabic, says Michael Ibrahim, founder and director of the National Arab Orchestra. The NAO’s Takht ensemble will perform at Williams College with strings, wind and rhythm.
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A revolutionary 15th-century poet lives in Prahlad Tipanya’s music
The poet Kabir has inspired a folk music tradition for 600 years, and Prahlad Singh Tipanya, a musician known and loved across India, will bring it to Williams College.
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Paradise City Arts Festival celebrates 25 years of craft and skill
Twenty five years ago, the artists were setting up in a hurricane. Linda Kaye-Moses had come from Pittsfield with her silver pendants, and she was putting up her booth with her husband, Evan Soldinger. She creates jewelry in metalwork — talismans in metal clays and bright enamels.
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In Dalton’s haunted cornfield, a family fights to keep teens safe
A horn sounds — an emergency — a car crash. The onlookers find themselves in a hospital ward, waiting to find out what has happened and how badly the injured are hurt. But the hospital lies through night woods and farmyard and a corn maze, and the blood is fake. […]
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Art in the Berkshires – 2019
As the leaves turn, artists are opening their studios, and museums and galleries open new shows …
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Acclaimed artist Cauleen Smith talks on the Time of Now at Mass MoCA (BTW column)
A young man and a young woman stand on a river bank in Cameroon. They are barefoot in swim suits, arguing passionately about music. She wants to listen to songs like the Beatles in her own way, and play them with her own sound, and he wants to compose his […]
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Berkshire Historical Society explores Herman Melville’s attic
The desk set is made of green glass with a pattern of dark leaves. The label names it Tiffany. Erin Hunt read it in fascination and mulled over these fine opalescent boxes. They would hold ink and paper, stamps, pens and blotter ends. And what would someone write with them, […]
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