Artists have come to the Berkshires in the footsteps of James Weldon Johnson, an internationally known poet, writer and politician with influence from the Harlem Renaissance to the U.S. Congress.
Read articleEllen Driscoll paints plants healing the earth
Poplar leaves tip and glimmer dark chocolate and copper, as though they’re blowing in the moonlight. Ellen Driscoll paints them in walnut ink … and shows them healing the earth.
Read articleDream worlds and dinosaurs see the sun — #berkshireweekend
Stories and art are coming together this week. I’ve been walking through the Norman Rockwell Museum this past week, looking through their illustration collection and imagining possibilities.
Read articleMystery unveils at the Norman Rockwell Museum
This spring, the Norman Rockwell Museum explores their collection of illustrations, taking a broad look at an artform that appears in daily life and imagines worlds beyond.
Read articleRoots and uprooting meet at MCLA
Nationally and internationally acclaimed artists Lorena Molina, Larissa Rogers and Jumana Manna, have come together in Unfortunately It Was Paradise at MCLA’s Gallery 51.
Read articleWCMA to the future — Imagine a museum that doesn’t yet exist …
The building flows in one wide story, with a ripping roofline that echoes the hills … After years of planning, the Williams College Museum of Art has revealed designs for the museum’s new campus, created by SO-IL.
Read articleWCMA maps the Unfinished Project of Liberation
From many perspectives, internationally acclaimed artists are looking closely at the roots of the nation’s ideas of freedom, and how they play out in the 21st century.
Read articleEluding Capture: Rising light at Mass MoCA — #berkshireweekend
On a sunlit afternoon, I walked into the labyrinth of Eluding Capture, the newest exhibit at Mass MoCA, where Gulnur Mukazhanova, a Berlin-based artist, is telling stories in traditions of cloth from her native Kazakhstan …
Read article10×10 Festival
The city in the hills is at play. The annual 10×10 Festival is in town, and you can watch a new play or dance to Afro-Cuban rhythms, try a new microbrew or listen to jazz, or walk in the winter sun ...
Read articleArt in the Berkshires — Winter 2024
When Raven Chacon composes, he seems to draw the voices of a forest. We haven’t yet had the chance to hear his music in the Berkshires — but we can see him, and artists with him and around him, re-imagining the world.
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