International artist and children’s book author Leo Lionni can tell complex stories in bright strokes, as his characters question their worlds with open curiosity … and transform them.
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Surprised by joy in winter holiday walks — #berkshireweekend
This weekend opens the season of downtown celebrations, from a music and horse-drawn wagon rides to wreaths and art and family events …
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Williamstown Holiday Walk calls spirits of past and present
When I come downtown this weekend, I’ll be looking for the kind of energy and scents and sounds can give the day a shine. Singing in the cold with the resin of fir trees ...
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Thankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend
This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …
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New forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
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Gathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
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Daydreaming collage meets a native winter garden
On a clear November morning, I was walking through the native plant garden at the Bennington Museum, and I found a mouse telling stories.
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Voice of the wild iris — in memory of Louise Glück
She wrote days on the edge of thaw. She spoke in the voices of the earliest ephemeral wildflowers. They move out of the earth in the sleet, and new petals shake in a wind as high as a mountain. And they become oracles …
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Ashley Eliza Williams explores nonhuman senses and sentience
Moths can fly in wind and rain, Ashley Eliza Williams writes, and in her painting, a ghostly form opens wings like lightening. They fan out across the night sky over the sea ...
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Artists conjure hope and resistance — Like Magic
At Mass MoCA, a group of artists are seeking ways to grow and go on when life and health and well-being feel fragile.
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