Assadour Ohanes (Aso O.) Tavitian’s collection offers one of the largest gifts in the museum’s history, 331 paintings, sculpture and more.
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New moon and firefly time — #Berkshireweekend
June heat is carrying in the first wave of summer. We can tie dye a t-shirt at the library and sit in the shade, or read Frederick Douglas out loud.
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Norman Rockwell artists ask what ‘American’ means
This summer, in a show of artists across times and perspectives, the Norman Rockwell Museum explores ideas of freedom in a country of, by and for the people.
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High School artists stand for the planet and the future
How Shall We Live, a group show curated by Living the Change Berkshires and Cooler Communities, looks for hope and action in a changing climate.
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Physics for wild souls and spirits — #berkshireweekend
The season is slipping into a new stream. Peonies are budding, gardeners are sowing seeds outdoors and rainbow flags are flying downtown.
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Safia Elhillo holds space for loss at WordxWord
Safia Elhillo asked us to think of something we had lost. We sat in a circle, reading poems aloud about the kind of loss that has no recovery, the kind of loss that haunts.
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International films touch local ground — #berkshireweekend
Poets and activists, sustainers of local food, people who speak for their families and their land — voices are running through the weekend, and I hear them aligned, tough and clear, grieving, brimming with life.
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Wayfinding in four dimensions
When you move through a space and know where you are by instinct, is there a word for knowing your way by senses and sense memories?
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May opens meadows and stages — #berkshireweekend
The heifers are cantering and gamboling in the pasture. Young cows stream into the meadow for their first taste of grass this spring.
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InDance simmers and shimmers with Rowdies in Love
What does it mean to fall in love? Hari Krishnan and his company open with a question in one of the first spring performances Jacob’s Pillow has ever held.
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