The tunnel cut into the hill was wholly dark except for “an occasional narrow slit screened by branches.” The gunners had screens behind them, to keep any betraying light from showing where they sat with guns between their knees. Coming out into a “gutted house among fruit trees,” a woman […]
Read articleGlass art grows roots in an outdoor exhibit at Chesterwood
On one coast, young artists camped under massive pine trees while a furnace glowed under a wooden-beamed tent. On the other coast, a trim man and his daughter molded clay into the folds of a white shift. A fountain played behind his studio, and his sculpture in bronze and marble dignified […]
Read articleFiorello! fights corruption — to music — at Berkshire Theatre Group
He defended strikers and labor unions. He worked as a translator at Ellis Island in Italian, Yiddish and Croatian. He helped and represented newcomers in the city, and against the corrupt political machine of Tammany Hall they supported him when he ran for the House of Representatives — as a […]
Read articleLike a marble in the sun — Glass art gleams at Chesterwood
Glass art gleams in the woods and gardens at Chesterwood, the historic house and studio of Daniel Chester French in Stockbridge. On a bright afternoon this week I got to walk around the show with executive director Donna Hassler and the show’s curator, Jim Schantz, owner and director of Schantz […]
Read articleAzaleas bloom above Berry Pond
The air is loud with bees. I am standing in a channel of ferns and berry-cane scrub, and I have picked my way off the path — to stand surrounded by azaleas.
Read articleFinding Raven at the Berkshire Museum
Finding Raven: Art and Stories from the Northwest Coast, a 2016 exhibit (and app) at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, brings together contemporary artwork and work from the 19th and 20th centuries, from artists of the Haida, Coast Salish, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit.
Read articleBerkshire farms churn ice cream with local flavors
After enjoying a delicious meal in a restaurant, some patrons ask to meet the chef. At Maple Valley Creamery, ice cream and dairy lovers ask to meet the cows.
Read articleRobert Hite builds spirit houses at Hancock Shaker Village and Berkshire Museum
Robert Hite, an artist based in the Hudson Valley, has brought sculptures from his “Imagined History” series to the Berkshires — miniature buildings that settle into the landscape and seem to hold their own stories.
Read articleSongwriters hit the spotlight
Bob Dylan. Mavis Staples. Tanglewood. The Berkshire region gathers acoustic music and iconic singer-songwriters all summer long.
Read articleWonder launches at Mass MoCA
Denise Markonish, curator at Mass MoCA in North Adams, wants to translate awe into art in a group show of 23 international artists, with inspirations from nuclear fission to fractal origami, in ‘Explode Every Day’ at Mass MoCA in 2017.
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