Low strings advance to a beat like incoming thunder. A lithe figure in red strikes the ground with an itshoba, a wooden rod. Myrtha, the queen of the Wilis, flexes firm shoulders and extends a bare foot … as South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo introduces a new Giselle to the ’62 Center of Theatre and Dance at Williams College.
Read articleKinetic sculpture brings international artists with local ties to Chesterwood
George Rickey’s metal forms caught the light and shifted in the wind. By that summer, he had shown them worldwide from Osaka to Berlin. In 1978, Maxwell Davidson met George Rickey for the first time at Rickey’s studio in East Chatham, N.Y. Davidson had opened his New York gallery 10 years […]
Read articleOutdoor sculpture brings color to The Mount in leaf season
As the summer season wanes, outdoor sculpture in leaf season takes on a new light, and The Mount in Lenox continues to draw people in even before they reach the mansion. Take a relaxing stroll along one of the Berkshires’ loveliest of driveways toward what once was the Gilded Age home […]
Read articleAbstracts and landscapes in oils and plaster gleam at Good Purpose Gallery
Surfaces shimmer like water at sunrise. The paintings are layered in color, in oils and Venetian plaster or encaustic pigments in hot beeswax. Patricia Hogan and Marcelene I. Mosca share their work, abstraction spilling into landscape, cityscape and motion, in Two Perspectives, a new exhibit at the Good Purpose Gallery of […]
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