Elizabeth Williamson, associate artistic director at the Hartford Stage, will bring a world premiere, a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, maybe the first novel in first-person to open readers to a woman’s mind.
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10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival warms up downtown
The 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival is in town, and Pittsfield is at play. Every year in late February, downtown Pittsfield holds a weeklong celebration with art and music, new plays, independent film and more.
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Edith Wharton’s own ‘Age of Innocence’ comes home on its 100th birthday
A hundred years ago, after World War I, Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence. This winter, her own copy of the book has returned to her library at the Mount.
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Nannina Gilder reveals women filmmakers and directors before 1960
Nannina Gilder, a Berkshire screenwriter and historian with an interest in the history of women in film, gives a series of talks on leading women directors and filmmakers before 1960 and their power and innovation.
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Ad Minoliti charts new worlds in bright abstractions
Argentine artist Ad Minoliti is charging a gallery with the energy of a circus tent or a carnival in Fantasías Modulares, in her solo show of bright geometric and abstract paintings at Mass MoCA.
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Movement and light come to the Berkshires midway between winter and spring (By the Way column)
Sunday is midwinter, halfway between the first day of winter and the first day of spring, and in the Berkshires energy is stirring in performances like Vuyani Dance Company’s Cion, on college campuses and in the woods.
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Gamaliel Rodríguez draws mills, mountains and possible futures at Mass MoCA
Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez has drawn a landscape of mills and mountains by hand in a 60-foot-long mural along the hallway outside the Hunter Center at Mass MoCA.
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Arabesques finds inspiration in a springing line at the Clark Art Institute (By the Way)
Arabesques at the Clark Art Institute traces the influence of a curving line that feels as though it moves freely across the page, from Islamic art to 19th-century Europe.
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Nationally awardwinning architects and designers set to create cultural center
Nationally recognized architects and designers Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson and Walter Hood are working to re-imagine the Clinton Church in Great Barrington as a cultural center celebrating African American history.
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Contra dance is alive and growing in the Berkshires
The tradition of contra dancing stretches from coast to coast and back more than 400 years. A caller teaches a series of simple moves, and dancers join in to live music with a beat and a quick melody.
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