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Kate Abbott
The Norman Rockwell Museum opens the first major American retrospective on the art and design work of modernist designer and children’s book illustrator Leo Lionni on a sunny fall afternoon.
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Visual Arts

Leo Lionni connects gently between worlds …

December 6, 2023
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International artist and children’s book author Leo Lionni can tell complex stories in bright strokes, as his characters question their worlds with open curiosity … and transform them.

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Winterberry glows in the sun at Windy Hill Orchard in Great Barrington.
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Winter holidays in the Berkshires

November 29, 2023
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Holidays return in the Berkshires — even in an uncertain year, we can find music and storytelling and lights in the dark, and an energy in local places ...

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Musicians perform at the Great Barrington Arts Market's annual holiday marketplace.
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Winter holidays

Thankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend

November 24, 2023
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This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …

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Danish fiddler Kristian Bugge will perform with the trio Gangspil at Dewey Hall. Photo by Sophie Bech
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Gathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend

November 16, 2023
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Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.

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A young cedar tree stands against the winter sky in the native garden at Bennington Museum.
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Visual Arts

Daydreaming collage meets a native winter garden

November 16, 2023
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On a clear November morning, I was walking through the native plant garden at the Bennington Museum, and I found a mouse telling stories.

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A small iris, reticulata, blooms in Williamstown.
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Voice of the wild iris — in memory of Louise Glück

November 16, 2023
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She wrote days on the edge of thaw. She spoke in the voices of the earliest ephemeral wildflowers. They move out of the earth in the sleet, and new petals shake in a wind as high as a mountain. And they become oracles …

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Ashley Eliza Williams paints a radiant ghost like a moth with spread wings in the night sky in Reflecting Ecologies at MCLA Gallery 51.
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Visual Arts

Ashley Eliza Williams explores nonhuman senses and sentience

November 13, 2023
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Moths can fly in wind and rain, Ashley Eliza Williams writes, and in her painting, a ghostly form opens wings like lightening. They fan out across the night sky over the sea ...

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Malaika Ross creates mixed media drawings and collages in patterns of light and shadow inspired by microorganisms including Streptomyces and Funneliformis mosseae in Reflecting Ecologies at MCLA Gallery 51.
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Malaika Ross traces ecosystems at the roots

November 10, 2023
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Malaika Ross creates mixed media drawings in patterns of light and shadow inspired by microorganisms like Funneliformis mosseae — a fungus that can form relationships with plants to help them heal and grow.

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A swimmer wades out on a rainy summer day in Joan Hanley's painting in Reflecting Ecologies at MCLA Gallery 51.
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Behind the scenes with artists — #berkshireweekend

November 9, 2023
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On a cool grey Saturday, MCLA invited me to talk with the artists in their fall art show, Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature, as they focus in on a lacewing moth, a blown down branch, a river stone …

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A red maple fills the courtyard with color at Mass MoCA on a fall day.
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Artists conjure hope and resistance — Like Magic

November 8, 2023
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At Mass MoCA, a group of artists are seeking ways to grow and go on when life and health and well-being feel fragile.

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