Ceramics artists show their art this weekend, as the 10th annual Berkshire Pottery Tour opens studios across Stockbridge, Great Barrington, new Marlborough and Monterey.
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Neighbors open questions of time and healing — On Cedar Street
A woman and a man sit together on the edge of possibility — two charismatic, intelligent people living alone, old enough for grown children and teenage grandchildren, testing the ground for how much they can trust.
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High culture, low pay — Local arts groups push for change
Berkshire arts nonprofits are exploring the need for diversity, equity, fair pay – and for understanding the experiences of their workers and investing in their futures.
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Record shops are turning up the sound in the Berkshires
Vinyl is growing in the Berkshires — the past few years have seen a new energy and enthusiasm grow around records, and record stores are drawing in new audiences with live music and events.
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Moving right along — Tony Sarg gives puppets an artist’s hands
Tony Sarg has come a long way to reach the Norman Rockwell Museum this summer. An artist and illustrator in Germany, London and New York, he influenced puppetry across America — even to the Muppets.
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Beninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
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Mapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
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Lights, color, action — Chesterwood opens in film and Pride week — #Berkshire Weekend
The stone glows like alabaster channeled by waterfalls of glass. On an afternoon bright enough to be summer, sculptor Ron Mehlman has come to Chesterwood at the opening of his solo show.
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Olivia’s Overlook soothes and surprises on a spring day
Lie on your back up here with your feet under the lowbush blueberries and you can hear the wind around you like a river. The cups of the blueberry blossoms and a wild cherry sapling are quivering in the warm air.
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‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ explores the future
‘The constitution … is a living, warm-blooded, steamy document,’ Heici Schreck argues in her Tony-nominated play — and she asks with a deeper understanding, what world could we imagine if that could really be true — for her, and for everyone.
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