Holidays return in the Berkshires — even in an uncertain year, we can find music and storytelling and lights in the dark, and an energy in local places …
Read articleThis place is a living ecosystem of people and places and ideas, and this broad category brings together their stories — you may find stories of healing, teaching, celebrating, taking care of people and the land, reaching out to many parts of the world and feeling the roots of this one, in the past, present and future.
EJ Hill’s Brake Run Helix spins toward exultation
The solo rider in the single cart drops a full story in a rush, lifting both arms and shouting, and the cart slues into a wide arc. Los Angeles artist EJ Hill has created an art installation out of terror and delight.
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New Orleans poets inspire North Adams art
Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker sets a man and woman resting together, and a collective of Black poets from 1845, at the center of his new installation with MCLA’s Art Lab.
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Lorenzo Baker collages the past and future
Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker is exploring the richness of human experience and the daily lives of Black Americans in What Happens if February Never Ends?
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Explorations — Great Barrington in holiday season
One day when I had a story interview in the Southern Berkshires, I came early to wander through downtown Great Barrington, looking for locally made gifts.
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Nightwood 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.
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Thankful for the mountains — #berkshireweekend
Windy Hill Orchard grows rows of winterberry bushes every year. You can walk into a sea of scarlet higher than your head, and they’re bright even on cold, cloudy afternoons.
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Hilary 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.
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Eloise 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.
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Fresh bread on rainy mornings – #berkshireweekend
Ice Glen feels like its own world. You walk through a gap in the rock, and the land changes — steps and caves, boulders covered with moss and fern.
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