On a sunlit afternoon, I walked into the labyrinth of Eluding Capture, the newest exhibit at Mass MoCA, where Gulnur Mukazhanova, a Berlin-based artist, is telling stories in traditions of cloth from her native Kazakhstan …
Read articleArt in the Berkshires — Winter 2024
When Raven Chacon composes, he seems to draw the voices of a forest. We haven’t yet had the chance to hear his music in the Berkshires — but we can see him, and artists with him and around him, re-imagining the world.
Read articleArtists conjure hope and resistance — Like Magic
At Mass MoCA, a group of artists are seeking ways to grow and go on when life and health and well-being feel fragile.
Read article#FreshGrass music festival rises up singing — #berkshireweekend
Something about moving through familiar spaces with the energy of brilliant voices who were halfway across the country or the world a few days ago … draws me back to FreshGrass every year.
Read articleWalk with Amal — a global traveler crosses America
Amal — a 12-foot-tall puppet, a moving work of theater creating community and art across three continents — comes to Mass MoCA and to Ashfield to find rest and music and home.
Read articleElle Pérez photographs connection with people and place
Elle Pérez stretches time — their images can join people in the land, in places that have held light and life for hundreds of years.
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 articleLet’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend
The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
Read articleMass MoCA and Flamenco tap into living rhythm — #Berkshireweekend
‘The Eve of the Future’ … I was walking through Mass MoCA’s new spring shows, and the name of one of Carrie Schneider’s photographs caught my eye.
Read articleSpontaneous dance will invoke Eight Elements in Eight Hours
How does a body dance oxygen? How does a body dance trees breathing out and people breathing in — the invisible balance that keeps us alive?
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