What a difference a year makes. Thanksgiving morning, 2016, with camera in hand I hiked through the woods around Wahconah Falls, carefully avoiding the gorge and falls, as I was alone and the rocks were very slippery. It had snowed the previous day and night, and I was on a […]
Read articleContemporary sculptures gleam on a winter morning at Mass MoCA
This morning, I came to hear the Mass MoCA winter season announced — art and events across the next few months, leading up to William Kentridge’s residency in May. He will come with a troupe of more than 50 performers for a two-week residency and performance of his in-progress work, The Head and […]
Read articleSpringside Park in Pittsfield offers gentle walks in winter
Springside Park’s 237 acres of mostly undeveloped field and woodland fit gently into the residential neighborhoods of Pittsfield’s North End. Far more trees — and squirrels — live in this part of town than any other, in the city’s largest park. How large is the park? Jim McGrath, open space […]
Read articleA Mughal artist tells the story of the Magi in Persian perspective
On a winter afternoon afternoon, a painting stands at a meeting of worlds – an Adoration of the Magi inspired by Persian and Mughal miniatures at the Williams College Museum of Art.
Read articleJames Van Der Zee photos from the Harlem Renaissance years will come home
He was born in a house on Hubbard Street when Hubbard Street was still a dirt road. He remembered early years in a large, warm family. Around him, people were always sketching and drawing, singing and playing instruments. He played the piano and the violin, but the instrument that made his […]
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