Twenty-one years ago, a professional clown asked nationally known singer songwriter Bernice Lewis of Williamstown to help found the Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra.
Read articleBerkshire artist Wendy Rabinowitz weaves Shalom in brilliant threads
As a girl growing up on the south side of Chicago, Wendy Rabinowitz would wake at 6 a.m. and slip out of her house to walk a mile to Lake Michigan, to see the sunrise. Her father would come after her, she said, anxious that she had walked the city […]
Read articleNational Geographic photographs ‘Look West’ at the Berkshire Museum
American bison gallop over open ground in a golden haze in an exhibit at the Berkshire Museum, as National Geographic images probe deep into the West.
Read articleChesterwood contemporary sculpture holds a warm glow in early fall
Barn boards and harness, ruffed grouse, swallowtail butterflies — Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have come to the woods and fields around Chesterwood, Gilded-Age sculptor Daniel Chester French’s historic house and studio in Stockbridge, with site-specific shapes and forms. On an early fall morning, the sculptures brighten the grounds like ripe […]
Read articleFrench and France — Chesterwood sculpture on the ege of the bronze age? BTW Column
Light comes through broad windows high on the wall and sloping in the roof — northern light. Bill Allen, a guide waiting in the studio to talk with visitors, explains that sculptors like ambient northern light because it stays consistent, no movement during the day, no change in color, no […]
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