The Hoosic River faces challenges to a healthy flow of water for the plants and animals and people who live along it, and local nonprofits and volunteers are talking about the future — as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens a study that has taken years to secure.
Read articleHot shades in the summertime … — #Berkshireweekend
A collage of conversations explore honesty, communication and silence in Joseph Grigely’s In What Way Wham? White Noise and Other Works,’ at Mass MoCA.
Read articleShakuntala remixes a Sanskrit play and 21st-century love story
Williams professor of theater Shanti Pillai has gathered together an ensemble of student actors and guest artists, musicians, puppeteers, a Bollywood choreographer … and they are creating a new work together.
Read articleLama Tashi Norbu fuses Tibetan mantras and tattoo art
Isaac Rivera, Williams College ’26, honors his Zapotec and Chinantec roots, as Tibetan Lama Tashi Norbu offers him a tattoo drawn from Buddhist iconography and a mantra crafted uniquely for him.
Read articleSpring wildflowers and baby animals emerge — #Berkshireweekend
The bloodroot are back. I just went down to one of the closest places I know to look for them, out on the trail along the western bank of the Hoosic River.
Read articleSoledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca come seeking Goya
Martín Goldin Santangelo and Soledad Barrio are delving deep into the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, translaving the rawness of his dream visions into flamenco.
Read articlePortals open at the Clark in vivid color — #Berkshireweekend
In Germany between the wars, Paul Goesch drew doorways into growing, bright, living places — and the Clark is reviving them this spring.
Read articleSap and music rise on the edge of spring — #Berkshireweekend
By the scuffed ground around the bowl, I’m not the only small person who has found this magic circle. I’m out in the golden hour, walking on the lower loop through Hopkins Forest.
Read articleContemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.
Read articleLama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime
Lama Tashi Norbu forms a contemporary collage of bright color in paint and wood, and in the petals he sees a gulf and a bridge between worlds.
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