Mom, the world is green again. This is the week the leaves open, and the valleys are transforming overnight. If you were here, we could go up to Wing and a Prayer and look for the ones you’ve taught me …
Read articleMass MoCA sees momentum through 25 years — Part 1
When Tom Bernard worked at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art 20 years ago, he wore his grandmother’s badge from Sprague Electric Co. clipped to his own. His family did not know what the museum would be, he says, but they believed it could be a force in revitalizing North Adams …
Read articleHow can a museum grow a creative ecosystem? — Part 2
Sue Killam sees Mass MoCA acting like a keystone species in the Berkshires — one organism that defines a whole ecosystem and keeps it healthy.
Read articleNorth Adams and Mass MoCA look to the future — Part 3
On a spring morning, the line stretched out the door at Touchy Coffee on Main Street. The new popup from Troy, N.Y., was drawing curiosity and interest. Ben Lamb and Tom Bernard see an energy in North Adams …
Read articleDowntown stirring behind the scenes — #berkshireweekend
Assets 4 Artists and MCLA’s Galley 51 are coming together to show the work of the first five Iris Residency artists at Mass MoCA, in partnership with the Berkshire Immigrant Center.
Read articleBlossoms and books and baby animals — #berkshireweekend
I walked along the river last night, and it felt like the first nudge of spring — and I can see why writers like Arianna Collins and Lara Tupper think of spring as a good time for Haiku.
Read articleLeading a way through a quantum library in a labyrinth
What if a library could hold every book that can ever be written? Milne Library will explore Jorge Luis Borges’ story ‘The Library of Babel’ as part of their 150th anniversary celebration …
Read articleLara Tupper brings poetry to the hills
Lara Tupper, an awardwinning writer and novelist, world-traveling jazz and folk singer and founder of Swift Ink stories, will lead free poetry and writing workshops across the Berkshires.
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.
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