The Clark Art Institute takes a trip through their collection of 6,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, from Impressionist Paris to Saitō Kiyoshi’s Sakurada-Mon Tokyo and beyond.
Read articleOracle Bones hold family through time
Artist Elizabeth Atterbury links past and present at the Clark Art Institute with sculpture in wood, metal and stone, and abstract prints in bright color.
Read articleStories open portals on winter nights — #berkshireweekend
On an afternoon when the sun seems to set by 4, it can help to find a group of people talking about stories and sharing experiences, weaving myth and imagery.
Read articleSurprised 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 …
Read articleWilliamstown 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 ...
Read articleThankful 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 …
Read articleVoice 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 …
Read articleBreathing deep on mild days in late fall
On an afternoon near Halloween with a rare glimpse of sun, I went wandering on Sheep Hill. The trees were turning that silver-tawny shade of bare limbs in the late fall sun.
Read articleCalling all the monsters …
My old neighborhood magnetically attracts Trick-or-treaters, and by about 5 that afternoon people were showing up so often that I stopped trying to close the door and just sat on the porch in the sun ...
Read articleEarly signs of fall color — #berkshireweekend
Up on Stone Hill, marigolds are flowering vividly in Pallavi Sen’s garden, and here by the reflecting pool I’m looking at the berries of a coffee plant and wondering if I’ve ever seen them before …
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