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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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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‘The Race 2020’- MCLA theater reflects on presidential power
MCLA presents ‘The Race 2020’ — an interactive show by Sojourn Theater that engages audienes in discussing the 2020 presidential election.
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Trinh Mai and fellow artists weave immigration and family stories
In her studio in southern California, Trinh Mai Thạch turns to show a life-sized portrait of her husband in an artwork inspired by prayers of protection and migration. She plans to bring her work the country.
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Wendy Red Star imagines the past and future of the Apsáalooke
Commanders and ambassadors who fought to keep their people alive hold a central place in nationally recognized artist Wendy Red Star’s exhibit at Mass MoCA, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
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At Mass MoCA new artists reclaim land and languages
The word for a spring and an eye are the same in Arabic, says Nasser Alzayani in his new work at Mass MoCA, a lament for a historic water source now gone dry. As I come back for the first time after the shut-down, new artists across the museum are offering a determination to preserve something beautiful, and human, and natural.
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Celestials from China change North Adams in 1870
The Celestials, a group of young men, came from China to North Adams in 1870 to work in a shoe factory, and Mass MoCA recalls their story. Imagine them looking out the train windows here for the first time.
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MCLA and Berkshire museums bring energy in hard times
This spring, museums in the Berkshires are moving online. Cultural and creative places have faced abrupt disruption, and they are cutting back, but at the same time they are reaching out.
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Mass MoCA cuts back to weather the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on many artists and museums and creative spaces. Last week Mass MoCA laid off 120 of their 160 staff. It shakes me as a writer in the Berkshires, and I’ve been thinking about why.
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