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Kate Abbott
A red maple in the Mass MoCA courtyard shows color on a sunny eary April day.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Kang Seung Lee honors kin in spirit (April 7 newsletter)

April 9, 2021
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An artist is kneeling with his hands in the earth. Kang Seung Lee has come to Namsan Park in Seoul, and somewhere along the mountain paths and Joseon gardens and 14th-century houses, he is remembering a writer and a filmmaker together.

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Eamon Ore-Giron's gleaming abstract painting draws connections between artistic traditions across the world.
Eamon Ore-Giron
Visual Arts

Artists seek kinship in hard times in ‘Close to You’

April 7, 2021
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Two men are dancing in the kitchen. They are barefoot, eyes closed, two black men holding each other at home, in a quiet lighted room. Los Angeles photographer Clifford Prince King offers an image of refuge and care in Close to You at Mass MoCA.

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Shadow figures move across the long walls of Gallery 5 in Glenn Kaino's new work at Mass MoCA.
Glenn Kaino
Visual Arts

Glenn Kaino invokes protest in light and shadow

April 7, 2021
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Los Angeles musician Deon Jones is singing U2’s Bloody Sunday in a ring of light. A protest in Derry, Northern Ireland, comes together with a protest Selma, Alabama, as international artist Glenn Kaino brings his new work to Mass MoCA.

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Early crocuses bloom in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

April opens with a poem a day

April 1, 2021
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Imagine a poem by Hafiz, the Sufi mystic poet, out loud in a rounded room with tall windows overlooking the mountains. The ridges are a light-imbued silver grey.

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Bog Laurel buds show deep pink in Hawley Bog.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

A local woman invents a new kind of poem

March 31, 2021
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This time of year, I met a woman in a stand of laurel bushes. It turns out by the time she was my age, she’d invented a new form of free-verse.

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Nancy Tyler's Diapause, human-sized lighted cuccoon sculptures, will join the spring celebration at TurnPark. Press courtesy photo
Natalie Tyer
Visual Arts

Turn Park Art Space welcomes the equinox with light

March 20, 2021
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At the top of the hill, cocoons pulse with light. Natalie Tyer has formed organic shapes as translucent as moth wings at Turn Park, and the glimmer intensifies as someone comes close.

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Nikolai Silis' bronze Don Quixote contemplates a daisy on a raw March day at Turn Park Art Space.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Outdoor sculpture recalls Russian artists in spring (March 17 newsletter)

March 18, 2021
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Don Quixote is sitting in a frozen field by a bare rock face, staring into the center of a daisy. I wonder what he dreams at the end of winter …

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Kid goats curl up together at Mountain Heart Farm. Press courtesy photo
Photo by Andrea Myklebust
Visual Arts

Weaver and fiber artist grows and teaches her art

March 11, 2021
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Sculptor, weaver and fiber artist Andrea Myklebust has come a long way from urban centers and metro lines to a farmyard where she cares for the goats and sheep who grow the wool she will weave by hand.

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Sheep contemplate a quiet morning at Hancock Shaker Village.
Photo by Susan Geller
Visual Arts

Shops and co-ops link knitters and locally grown wool

March 10, 2021
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It’s a quiet movement, sliding the yarn over the needle, pulling the loop through and repeating. The the feel of wool can be warm and earthy in your hands.

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A Berkshire farmer stokes his wood-fired boiler to condense sap into maple syrup.
Photo by Susan Geller
By the Way

Can you feel the sap running today? (March 3 newsletter)

March 9, 2021
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Sweet — That scent in the air like caramel over wood smoke — it feels almost unreal after all this last year, but it’s here. The sap is boiling.

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