Bluebirds are flocking on North Street. Phoenixes are lighting down on the corner and in the park. Migration season is coming … but this is more than I was expecting. The Let It Shine artists are finishing their murals …
Read articleA New Brain reckons with illness and endurance
Two men are holding each other in a hospital room. One of them is lying lean and tense in a hospital gown, and the other supports him to lift up. They sit together on the inadequate bed, facing an impossible diagnosis … a powerful image a musical first produced in 1998.
Read articleWomen in the sky in vivid color — #berkshireweekend
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 articleAzaleas are in full blow on the Taconic crest
It’s hard to explain the feeling of a whole hillside of azaleas in bloom. Blossoms rise in waves twice my height, blossoms thick on the bushes in clusters ...
Read articleEddie Jaku bares the strength to live through the Holocaust
Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran Kenneth Tigar speaks in a world premiere adapted from the memoir of Eddie Jaku, who lived through the brutality of Buchenwald and Auschwitz — and lost many people he loved.
Read articleHands-on celebrations for Valentine week
Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.
Read articleWomen reflect across 10 decades in the 10×10 Festival — #throwback
As part of the 2013 10x10 Festival, women across 10 decades think about what gets them moving — and they offer answers in words, performance and art.
Read articleArt in the Berkshires — Fall 2022
This fall, sculpture finds organic forms at WCMA and Hancock Shaker Village, and Norman Rockwell Museum explores freedom and representation in vivid and contemporary images.
Read articleHow many native wildflowers bloom in the fall? – #berkshireweekend
Walking through wildflowers taller than I am makes me want to laugh and lie back and watch the sky … they give perspective.
Read articleGlobal artists imagine Shaker sisters’ lives
Women worked here. Women lived here. When I walk through the Shaker kitchen, looking for Pinaree Sanpitak’s sculptures, I feel that in new ways.
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