Two women holding each other, relaxed and smiling in a swirl of color — they look like the kind of world I want to live in, and they’re vivid and tall as trees in the middle of North Street.
Read articleMoving right along — Tony Sarg gives puppets an artist’s hands
Tony Sarg has come a long way to reach the Norman Rockwell Museum this summer. An artist and illustrator in Germany, London and New York, he influenced puppetry across America — even to the Muppets.
Read articleWhat gives you hope? — #berkshireweekend
The question is hanging in the window of MCLA’s art lab on Main Street over a post box painted like a mosaic. In the sunlight, the colors look as bright and abstract as the bus stop across the street.
Read articleElle Pérez photographs connection with people and place
Elle Pérez stretches time — their images can join people in the land, in places that have held light and life for hundreds of years.
Read articleBeninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
Read articleMapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
Read articleBodies and lands bloom in Humane Ecology
Nina Simone sings in a nautilus shell, and nasturtiums and summer squash blossom, as the Clark Art Institute opens Humane Ecology, and eight contemporary artists from across the country show their work indoors and outdoors.
Read articleChris Thile and the Knights expand classical bluegrass
What happens when Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter Chris Thile meets The Knights, an internationally acclaimed orchestral collective ‘on a quest to expand the boundaries of classical music’?
Read articleCome here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer
‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ … Summer is opening all around us. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
Read articleEdvard Munch rides the storm in ‘Trembling Earth’
Spruces are standing tall overhead in the long blue dusk of a Norwegian summer. In the ring of trees, in the earth at the roots, a ring of light is glowing. A portal has opened between Williamstown and the boreal forests outside Oslo …
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