Wayne Shorter, internationally acclaimed composer and saxophonist, and esperanza spalding, bassist, vocalist, both Grammy winners many times over, are transforming a Greek classic with a new voice.
Read articleBooks and bluegrass are sparking new stories — #berkshireweekend
She sang and she held the room in her hands. Her voice was clear alto, almost tenor, and guitar chords and percussion built an inexorable rythm in love and anger and grief. I can still remember shivering with it.
Read articleGloria Calderon Saenz carves current and color
A palm tree leans outward by a pool where the water ripples in concentric circles, as though a fish has just jumped and gone under … Gloria Calderon Saenz has come to the Berkshires to find space and time for her art, paintings and drawings, and most of all, woodcuts and woodblock prints.
Read articleLive music returns to the Berkshires
Low strings move below warm chords and a rhythm like rain. Vicento Garcia is singing ‘Amor Arrayano’ with Yasser Tejeda and his band, Palotré. Live music is returning to the Berkshires, bringing performers from many genres and many places.
Read articleLooking up to open sky (June 9 newsletter)
The circle of blue framed in the opening in the ceiling seems to float overhead like a new planet. In his newest work at Mass MoCA, James Turrell has turned a concrete water tank into a Skyspace.
Read articleWendy Red Star imagines the past and future of the Apsáalooke
Commanders and ambassadors who fought to keep their people alive hold a central place in nationally recognized artist Wendy Red Star’s exhibit at Mass MoCA, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
Read articleCelestials from China change North Adams in 1870
Everything looked and smelled and tasted new to them. These teenagers had all newly come from China to North Adams, and only one spoke English.
Read articleAd Minoliti charts new worlds in bright abstractions
Argentine artist Ad Minoliti is charging a gallery with the energy of a circus tent or a carnival in Fantasías Modulares, in her solo show of bright geometric and abstract paintings at Mass MoCA.
Read articleGamaliel Rodríguez draws mills, mountains and possible futures at Mass MoCA
Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez has drawn a landscape of mills and mountains by hand in a 60-foot-long mural along the hallway outside the Hunter Center at Mass MoCA.
Read articleChoreographer Camille A. Brown explores humanity and superpowers in ‘Ink’
A man and a woman rest their heads together, forehead to temple. Two young men lean shoulder to shoulder, looking up, as though they’re finding light in the night sky. In Bessie awardwinning choreographer Camille A. Brown’s Ink, they are superheroes set to fly.
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