In workshops smelling of new wood, many artists are whittling and sanding and wedging clay and cleaning paint brushes. Artists will open their studios this month and gather at winter holiday festivals.
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How to bring home a living Christmas tree — By the Way column
I was looking out from a field across from the Pleasant Valley Tree Farm, up above Bennington, Vt. I had decided I’d like a Christmas tree this year.
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Winterlights festival glows on a winter night at Naumkeag — BTW column
At Winterlights, the gardens and the woods are glimmering — Naumkeag in Stockbridge has turned on 200,000 bulbs in its second monthlong festival.
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Axis Mundo at WCMA rediscovers an artistic community in Los Angeles in the 1970s
A group of artists grew together in Southern California. They were kept out of galleries and museums and mainstream media, so they made their own spaces. And they are gathered together again now in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art — an exhibit that has won national attention.
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Young choreographers at Berkshire Pulse earn national attention
Five young women in the Young Choreographers Initiative at Berkshire Pulse have created their own work on the theme of sexual assault. And they have caught national attention.
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In ‘Finding Home’ artists tell stories of travel at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Artists Yuyi Morales, Frances Jetter, David Macaulay and James McMullan in a group show, Finding Home, at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
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Saving and scattering seeds to welcome Thanksgiving — BTW column
The pods taper gracefully. They have a central rib for support, and a green-gold skin like corn husk. I have never seen the inside clearly before. This afternoon, in the melting snow, I am standing at the sloshy top of my backyard, scattering milkweed seeds.
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A mother fights for her son in a tough contemporary world in ‘Pipeline’ at WAM Theatre
Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Pipeline, is one of the top 10 most produced plays in the country this year and an Obie winner in 2018, and WAM Theatre and Multicultural Bridge are partnering to bring it to the Berkshires.
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Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary celebrates 90 years
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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