Tibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend

It must be March. One day I’m braving the wind on North Street for tacos from Placita Latina, and the next I’m walking across a hayfield in the snow.

In this ragged half-winter half-spring, they can both help to get the blood moving. The carnitas are warm and generous with pork and green sauce — on a half-blustery day in the slush, they’re the essence of comfort food.

One morning ice is coating the trees, and the next I’m walking around North Adams in the sun, contemplating hot chocolate at the new tea shop on Eagle Street, and a deep orange wool sweater at Savvy Hive.

This time of year it can be hard to know what’s open until you get there. I’m thinking maybe we should start a collection of ways to keep warm on odd Tuesday mornings.

And then on the phone with a choreographer in South Africa. Thulani Chauke is telling me about his new work coming to Mass MoCA, and he says at home people say when you want to dance and you’re looking for music, you can move to the rhythm of your own heartbeat. …

Marie-Dolma Chophel's abstract painting Inner Dialog pulses with elemental color in blues and greens, amber and dun. Press photo courtesy of WCMA, taken by Kate Abbott
Marie-Dolma Chophel

Marie-Dolma Chophel's abstract painting Inner Dialog pulses with elemental color in blues and greens, amber and dun. Press photo courtesy of WCMA, taken by Kate Abbott


Marie-Dolma Chophel’s ‘Inner Dialog’ holds me still as I navigate Across Shared Waters, the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art. … Now that the show is open, I can give you some of my impressions up close.

Steve (in hat) and his father Bill Robinson pose for a portrait at Sunny Banks Ranch in Becket.
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder

Steve (in hat) and his father Bill Robinson pose for a portrait at Sunny Banks Ranch in Becket. Press photo courtesy of the Berkshire Eagle

Roberta McCulloch-Dews talks with Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, at their 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy …

Events coming up …

Find more art and performance, outdoors and food in the BTW events calendar.

Images Cinema persents the The Quiet Girl, the acclaimed Irish drama nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
Mar 23 2023 @ 4:30 pm
Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.
Leo and Remi stand surounded by tjckly growing tall flowers in Close, Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.
Mar 23 2023 @ 4:30 pm
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart.
An artist in residence paints in a studio at Mass MoCA.
Mar 23 2023 @ 5:00 pm
Mass MoCA’s artists-in-residence at The Studios — where you may meet a fiber artist, an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow and game designer, a fourth-generation asian American artist exploring collective memory, generational narratives, histories and space, a visual album maker from San Francisco, an Afrofuturist poetry slam champion, […]

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