At the beginning of spring, writers come to the Mount, sitting in Edith Wharton’s living room on a rare sunny afternoon, and reflect on the 10th annual residency.
Read articleWCMA to the future — Imagine a museum that doesn’t yet exist …
The building flows in one wide story, with a ripping roofline that echoes the hills … After years of planning, the Williams College Museum of Art has revealed designs for the museum’s new campus, created by SO-IL.
Read articleChases, escapes, true love, miracles … — #berkshireweekend
Libraries have always been magic for me. You walk into a room full of stories, Sunlit, quiet, warmed with a background hum of voices.
Read articleWilliamstown library opens celebration of 150 years
In 1894 the first book in the handwritten shelf list is Walt Whitman, poems like Leaves of Grass. In 1874, you might have been more likely to find Edmund Morris’ Ten Acres Enough.’ … When the Williamstown public library first opened to the town, it began with a collection of 100 agricultural books in a corner of H. Cole’s General Store.
Read articleEarliest whispers of spring — #berkshireweekend
bale of turtles. That’s the collective noun we find for the gathering on a rock by the water, all basking in the unexpected warmth of a late winter day.
Read articleDaf Moby project immerses in Melville — one page a day
Last fall, on Rosh Hashanah, Williams College professors Jeffrey Israel and Edan Dekel began reading Moby-Dick together … and they have found the experience transformative.
Read articleGenée Coreno imagines new futures for WAM Theatre
WAM Theatre sees the year ahead as time of transformation, as Genée Coreno becomes their new artistic director — and their 2024 season opens with nationally acclaimed singer songwriter Tracy Grammar in Be Here Now.
Read articleQuantum leaping into the spring — #berkshireweekend
Today feels like time traveling … a leap day sounds like a quantum dancer, something out of a science fiction novel, step into this moment and it can take you anywhere.
Read articleA certain slant of light — winter afternoons — #berkshireweekends
Sunset over the water on a clear winter day turns the sky a deep blue and a touch of rose. And it turns out so does a rainbow of color on an ice fall at the hairpin bend.
Read articleWCMA maps the Unfinished Project of Liberation
From many perspectives, internationally acclaimed artists are looking closely at the roots of the nation’s ideas of freedom, and how they play out in the 21st century.
Read article