The world is remembering Leonard Bernstein this summer. Aug. 25, 2018, would have been his 100th birthday, and on Saturday night the world will come to the Berkshires to remember him. Because in many ways he began here. He came as a student to the first class of what was […]
Read articleŁempicka new musical brings Parisian art to Williamstown Theatre Festival
In a studio at night, two women are holding each other. The room smells of paint and turpentine and smoke and sweat. An artist trying to build a career and raise a daughter comes to a bar after her first big opening and meets a woman who has always lived on […]
Read articleKayak around a floating island at Sadawga Lake
If you won’t have many opportunities to kayak in Southern Vermont this summer, why not choose a rare body of water? The 200-acre Sadawga Lake is said to be named for Chief Sadawga, an American Indian known to camp on its shore, and rumor has it he could swim under its […]
Read articleWomen Artists launch careers in Paris 1850 to 1910 — Summer show at the Clark Art Institute
Rosa Bonheur had won international fame for her scenes of horse fairs and ploughing oxen. She went to abattoirs and open markets to study animals, and she dissected them to learn their anatomy, like Leonardo Da Vinci learning the chambers of the human heart. But she had to get a […]
Read articleAfong Moy, the first woman to come from China to the U.S., tells her story
On Broadway, a young woman sits in a small room. At 3 and 7:30 p.m., twice a week, she will drink tea, walk in a circle and eat rice with chopsticks. She may sing a song from home and remember the quick and fluid music of strings and wooden flute […]
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