A new community of friends is looking for stories like these and encouraging the telling. Tom Truss and Bart Church have helped to found a new affinity group in Great Barrington, Queer Men of the Berkshires. And among their friendly activities, a group is forming to explore the arts.
Read articleWomen reflect across 10 decades in the 10×10 Festival — #throwback
As part of the 2013 10x10 Festival, women across 10 decades think about what gets them moving — and they offer answers in words, performance and art.
Read articleBut soft, what light through yonder window breaks? — #Berkshireweekend
In the middle of February, a new friend is leaning on the counter and talking about theater games. We’re thinking about building trust and how to make something vast and wild out of almost nothing …
Read articleMexican living traditions animate contemporary art
Internationally acclaimed artist Armando Guadaloupe Cortés invokes his native land in his installation at Mass MoCA and animates his sculptures in performances.
Read articleJane Austen meets the spirit of Christmas yet to come
Two years past the end of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ the Bennet family are gathering for the holidays, and Mary, the awkward, bookish middle sister, is about to take center stage for the first time in her life.
Read articleNightwood grows deeper into the trees
Nightwood has transfigured the Mount again with light and sound and sculpture, and the paths have shifted since last winter.
Read articleHilary Knight reveals hidden worlds in New York
Hilary Knight has explored New York as an artist for more than 70 years — and at 96, he still explores the city today in his drawings and paintings. Though he is often known as the illustrator of the Eloise books, he has wandered over a wild field.
Read articleEloise in the Berkshires — A book behind the scenes
Eloise has come to the Norman Rockwell Museum with visions of New York — a look into the mind of the artist who brought her to life.
Read articleSlideshow plays imagine depths in contemporary families
In a quiet yard in the five boroughs, a father hands his daughter her old baby blanket, and two women in love hold each other, asking what family really, essentially means …
Read articleFriends re-envision activism in Cadillac Crew
On an early summer day in 1963, four women are talking in a local Civil Rights office in Virginia. They’re riding high with excitement — Rosa Parks is planning to speak at a gathering of hundreds of people …
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