Artist and curator Wendy Red Star, Mass MoCA and MCLA will host a virtual roundtable exploring the ways museums can re-imagine care for Indigenous objects.
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A-Ok Barbecue spices up take-out in style
She is an Australian artisanal bread baker trained in New York. He is a former Manhattan chef and a butcher — a Russian Hungarian Jew from Connecticut. Together, at A-Ok, they are inventing Berkshire barbecue.
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The center can hold (January 6 newsletter)
Tonight while a mob is attacking government buildings, while I am sitting safe by the fire at the foot of a mountain in a town where I know college students have been threatened a mile away and somehow stood tall and gone on, I am reading Danusha Lameris’ poems for the first time.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’
In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.
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Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times
Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.
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Cheshire Glassworks glimmers with the colors of winter
In her studio at Cheshire Glassworks, Jill Reynolds is making beads. They reflect the changing seasons, the shifting landscapes outside her window.
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Listening to the darkness — WTF reimagines Streetcar Named Desire
Ariel Shafir and Audra McDonald explore the sounds of New Orleans and the darker sides of the human psyche in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s audible production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Holidays and humor grow near home (December 3 newsletter)
The first weekend in December — winterberry are deep red along the road. The long row of them in front of Windy Hill Farm is enough to turn my head when I drive by.
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Naumkeag’s Winterlights opens Berkshire celebrations (November 25 newsletter)
The blue stairs are ice and fire, gleaming with snowflakes and warm with Gospel music. A woman is singing in a confident alto, full-voice and improvising, ‘Let there be peace in every nation. Let there be hope for all the world to see …’
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Williamstown looks up after the election
Spring Street was alive on Saturday. Students were sitting outside Tunnel City in the unexpectedly warm weather, and I could feel a lift and an energy for the first time in … I don’t know how long.
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