Take a deep breath everyone. We’re standing on the edge of summer. In another week or two we’ll have sculpture shows opening and outdoor plays in the theaters. Already, live concerts are starting up in the grass.
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Summer is coming in (May 26 newsletter)
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been needing to get out. Spring is new and fresh everywhere. And after a year, live events are stirring again.
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Glenn Kaino invokes protest in light and shadow
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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Turn Park Art Space welcomes the equinox with light
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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Can you feel the sap running today? (March 3 newsletter)
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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NightWood turns the Mount into a new world
This winter, the Mount will transform Edith Wharton’s gardens and grounds with NightWood, a landscape of mystery and fantasy, doors into other worlds, journey and night.
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NightWood transforms the Mount (November 18 newsletter)
Torches flicker in a long curve into the darkness — a quarter-mile of oil lamps lighting the road. The Mount is a new place tonight. Firelight lines the path between the pine trees, and a bass beat begins to rise …
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Freedom of body and freedom of mind (October 15 newsletter)
High on Pine Cobble the color is deepening. When I climbed up a few days ago, the maple and beech and birch were in a glow, and I wandered along the ridge for awhile just breathing. In 20 years I had never walked the class of ’98 trail.
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Hubbard Hall lifts past and present voices for women’s rights
Women are talking in a public hall, debating passionately. They see the country at a turning point, shaken by an impeachment, an upsurge in violence and disputes over immigration and voting. It’s 1894 — and it’s today.
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BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood
BodySonnet, a new collective of dancers, returns to the Berkshires from New York City, drawing on Chesterwood and Andromeda for inspiration.
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