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 articleWorks on Paper map connections at the Clark
The Clark Art Institute takes a trip through their collection of 6,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, from Impressionist Paris to Saitō Kiyoshi’s Sakurada-Mon Tokyo and beyond.
Read articleOracle Bones hold family through time
Artist Elizabeth Atterbury links past and present at the Clark Art Institute with sculpture in wood, metal and stone, and abstract prints in bright color.
Read articleApple pie and roasted chestnuts — #berkshireweekend
Where would I explore this weekend, if I could be anywhere at the blink of an eye? I might head east over the ridge on Saturday for hot roast chestnuts at Big River Farm and the re-opening of the Yiddish Book Center …
Read articleEarly signs of fall color — #berkshireweekend
Up on Stone Hill, marigolds are flowering vividly in Pallavi Sen’s garden, and here by the reflecting pool I’m looking at the berries of a coffee plant and wondering if I’ve ever seen them before …
Read articleHooRWA and WRL explore the Hoosic river valley in stories and music
The Hoosic River Watershed Association and Williamstown Rural Lands are celebrating the Northern Berkshires in creative collaborations — original songs and poems and a new writing journal with Tupelo Press.
Read articleBodies and lands bloom in Humane Ecology
Nina Simone sings in a nautilus shell, and nasturtiums and summer squash blossom, as the Clark Art Institute opens Humane Ecology, and eight contemporary artists from across the country show their work indoors and outdoors.
Read articleEdvard Munch rides the storm in ‘Trembling Earth’
Spruces are standing tall overhead in the long blue dusk of a Norwegian summer. In the ring of trees, in the earth at the roots, a ring of light is glowing. A portal has opened between Williamstown and the boreal forests outside Oslo …
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 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.
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