Carlos Rodriguez had gotten off a plane from Puerto Rico the day before. When he came from his Brooklyn studio into this quiet room in North Adams, he felt exhausted. He wanted a warm place. So he made one. Across two walls he has hung cloth with a warm golden […]
Read articleA rocket lands on the roof at Mass MoCA (BTW column)
On the ceiling in chalk it said “I went to the skies because I wished to live deliberately.” Equations surrounded it, as though the person lying on this bunk jotted notes by lamp light at night. On the shelf behind the bunk stood a line of tomato preserves in glass […]
Read articleIce sculptures on the rocks grow naturally in the Berkshires
In what we like to call an old-fashioned winter, when temperatures fall well below freezing, we live in a shining land. Throughout the Berkshires I have photographed waterfalls and cascades both summer and winter, but locally few frozen spectacles cause as much excitement as the massive natural ice sculpture and […]
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