BTW Berkshires 
From a night game in Philly to a solo saxophone in New Orleans, from a dance performance to a dance party, from a scraggily lake house to a Paris club, people are moving this weekend — vibrating with music and pulsing with life as these fall nights get dark early.
There’s no joy like falling into a story. If Ani Cordero hadn’t chosen to come to Mass MoCA this Saturday night, I would not have be listening to her music today and imagining the folk musicians she has re-imagined — like Victor Jara sitting in a peña with musicians around him playing Chilean folk music…
The maniacal sea captain, the mad-cap whaling ship, the crewmen from New England and the Ocean Islands sleeping peacefully in a lantern-lit tavern in New Bedford … the book was a radical and visceral challenge when it came out, more than 150 years ago. Can the story hold as radical an edge today? Maybe, if women tell…
At sunset after a long day of work, Sameer Gupta remembers listening to a rippling music. “You feel it connecting,” he said in a phone interview from the West Coast, on tour for new album, A Circle Has No Beginnings. “The sun is setting, the day is winding down and you have made it through,…
Berkshire naturalist Thom smith takes a walk into the industrial past of a Becket quarry. The Chester-Hudson Quarry operated for close to 100 years. It is a skeleton of its past now. When it closed in the 1960s, buildings, machinery and vehicles were abandoned as if the workers finished their shift and left for the…
How would a carver in 16th-century France get ivory? Why does St. Lucy carry two eyes on a platter? In The Presence of Absence, curator Kevin Murphy presents an unusual collection of medieval objects from France and Spain, Persia and Byzantium, and the text in the show offers some unusual insights.
The Williams College Museum of Art has recovered a vanished room. It feels like a kind of mythical medieval place, with a floor of handmade tiles and dark plaster walls, oak beams and diamond-paned windows with inset stained glass. It was designed almost 80 years ago, walled away and almost forgotten. The young museum built…