This fall, sculpture finds organic forms at WCMA and Hancock Shaker Village, and Norman Rockwell Museum explores freedom and representation in vivid and contemporary images.
Read article‘Imprinted’ honors BIPOC artists and histories and futures
Imprinted at the Norman Rockwell Museum honors contemporary BIPOC artists and considers representations of Black, Indigenous, people of color in America across 400 years.
Read articleWhat’s your first real taste of summer? — #Berkshireweekend
You know the feeling when something hits home and you feel your expression shift instinctively — like tasting something that surprises you with its flavor?
Read articleWhat if we thought about what we want to feel in a garden? — #berkshireweekend
This is the transforming time, every year. We come to a day or two in May when every bare budding twig seems to open all at once ...
Read articleWinterlights dance in the dark at Naumkeag
It’s full moon, and I’m walking up the old road across the fields, so I can see the hill above me ... glowing red and gold. Naumkeag in Winterlights is bright as penny candy.
Read articleWe have liftoff into the Northern Lights (Nov 17 newsletter)
The berries make a vivid streak along the road, and there’s something buoyant about that wash of color now against a grey sky.
Read articleNew dig affirms Mohican homesites in the Southern Berkshires
An archaeological dig along the Housatonic River shows the site of Mohican homes over a long span of years.
Read articleLate summer blooms under the boardwalk at Jackson Pond
The pines open into cat-tails, and the view widens into dense deep green, and I'm looking across the marsh and the water to Yokun Ridge.
Read article‘If I had wings’ … artists chart new worlds (August 4 newsletter)
An angel is kissing a woman. It’s an arresting way to begin. As you walk into the rooms of fantasy paintings at the Norman Rockwell Museum, he stretches out wings shimmering pale pink and green like the inner side of a mussel shell.
Read articleOscar Wilde spins comedy on the edge of sadness
Two young men are talking in a London apartment at dusk. They feel familiar as they banter, inventing memes short enough for Instagram stories. It’s 1895, and The Importance of Being Earnest is open at Berkshire Theatre Group.
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