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Williamstown

Kate Abbott
The tuning pegs of an Oud, an Arab stringed instrument, show the curve of the instrument's wooden head. Creative Commons courtesy photo
Photo by Rod Waddington
Music

Live music converges from across the world

April 8, 2022
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The flute holds a long tone and turns it, and the sound flexes like a dancer. Two traditions are meeting here tonight from thousands of miles away.

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Purple crocuses bloom on a warm bank in southern sunlight.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

On a quest for the first signs of spring

March 25, 2022
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Spring is here, they tell me — and I’m collecting signs of it avidly this year. Outside the porch window someone is calling, the quick jiminy-jiminy-jiminy I think may be a Carolina wren …

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A close-up of a crazy quilt at Bennignton Museum shows bright, scraps of cloth in varied colors and textures, with patters of stitching and embroidered flowers.
Bennington Museum
Visual Arts

Quilting thrives with a contemporary energy

March 15, 2022
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From college dorms to quilt shops, an old New England artform is alive in the Berkshires, in patterns and textures from leaves and landscapes to contemporary abstract color.


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Katsushika Hokusai’s Amida Waterfall Deep in the Distance on the Kiso Road appears at WCMA. Press image courtesy of the museum
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Printmaking fills the Berkshire hills with color

March 10, 2022
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I’m at WCMA, after a morning at the new Sol LeWitt retrospective of silkscreens, aquatints and lithographs, sharing a quiet minute with Katsushika Hokusai’s Amida Waterfall …

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Sol LeWitt's print Brushstrokes in Two Different Colors in Two Directions appears in Strict Beauty at the Williams College Museum of Art. Press image by Kate Abbott courtesy of WCMA
Sol LeWitt
Visual Arts

‘Strict Beauty’ reveals Sol LeWitt through his prints

March 9, 2022
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If Sol LeWitt were alive today, would he be working with a programmer in fractal algorithms? Listening to the way he worked, it can be easy to imagine him experimenting in the digital age …

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Richard M. Miller's bronze sculpture of Diane looks across snowy hayfields at Field Farm in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

A winter encounter at Field Farm

March 2, 2022
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A porcupine was looking down at me. Six feet overhead, he or she (I couldn’t tell) was sitting on a limb spreading from a young tree …

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Tendai Muparutsa, leader of the Zambezi Marimba Band, is an internationally known performer and ethnomusicologist. Press photo courtesy of Williams College
Williams College
Music

Close your eyes and feel the music

March 1, 2022
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Glad rhythms — how can I describe the sound for you? Eight marimbas are cascading tones like summer rain. Within a few beats, most of the audience is on their feet.

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Light and cloud dapple a dawn sky above a bridge in Harlem, N.Y.
Photo by Ryan Hallock
Visual Arts

James Van der Zee envisions the Harlem Renaissance

February 14, 2022
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Near his photography studio in Harlem, James Van Der Zee could have heard Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey sing the blues …

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Ice coats branches on the Chestnut Trail in Williamstown at sunset.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Williamstown

When all the world’s a prism (February 9 newsletter)

February 10, 2022
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Look southwest, toward the sun, and the whole hillside gleams with light. We’re not likely to see many days like this one — after an ice storm …

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Golden stems stand in soft snow in Mountain Meadow in Williamstown on a sunny afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Comfort food (for thought) in stormy weather

February 3, 2022
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Mountain Meadow opens out in a long arc. It’s a warm day after these weeks of single digits, and the snow is soft underfoot, like wet sand on the tideline.

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