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Norman Rockwell Museum

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Dawn Fairies by Laura A. Mills appears in 'Enchanted' at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Artwork by Laura A. Mills
Visual Arts

‘If I had wings’ … artists chart new worlds (August 4 newsletter)

August 4, 2021
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An angel is kissing a woman. It’s an arresting way to begin. As you walk into the rooms of fantasy paintings at the Norman Rockwell Museum, he stretches out wings shimmering pale pink and green like the inner side of a mussel shell.

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AIM company dancers perform An Untitled Love.
AIM dance company
Visual Arts

MCLA and Berkshire museums bring energy in hard times

June 2, 2020
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This spring, museums in the Berkshires are moving online. Cultural and creative places have faced abrupt disruption, and they are cutting back, but at the same time they are reaching out.

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'Yuyi Morales illustrations from Dreamers appear in Finding Home at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Image courtesy of the artist and NRM.
Yuyi Morales
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In ‘Finding Home’ artists tell stories of travel at the Norman Rockwell Museum

November 19, 2019
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Artists Yuyi Morales, Frances Jetter, David Macaulay and James McMullan in a group show, Finding Home, at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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Photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon from 1969.
Norman Rockwell Museum
Visual Arts

Norman Rockwell Museum offers a tribute to the summer of ’69

July 5, 2019
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In the summer of 1969, Norman Rockwell told a reporter for the Associated Press that his work had changed. He wanted to paint an image “that would bring America back together again — promote understanding.” He had just finished a broad canvas textured with earth from the Southwest; a Dinee […]

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Illustrations from American artist and Uri Shulevitz' children's book, 'Dusk,' appeared at the Norman Rockwell Museum in winter 2018 and 2019.
Image by Uri Shulevitz / Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum
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Winter holidays from Hanukkah to Kwanzaa glow at the Norman Rockwell Museum

December 10, 2018
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People sit knitting in rocking chairs, someone at the piano and someone playing guitar. A woman on her way to college speaks a gorgeous poem of her own. People bring books and give readings — if they are working on a play or a song, they can try it out […]

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A woman looks out of bright swirls of paint in Lisa Cyr's 'Mademoiselle du Carnaval.' She will lead a workshop at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Image by Lisa Cyr / Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum
Arts

A collage shows the first statewide Artweek festival in images

May 1, 2018
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Get behind the scenes, get muddy, get up close to paper and paint and clay. ArtWeek crossed the state to the Berkshires in April and May 2018 with dozens of events, most of them free …

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A plein air artist sketches on a bright, mild day.
Plein Air artist / Courtesy of the Guild of Berkshire Artists
Visual Arts

Artweek festival crosses Massachusetts and the Berkshires

May 1, 2018
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The Germans called them the Night Witches. In World War II they flew planes made mostly of wood and canvas at night, without parachutes or radios. They were a Russian regiment, a few hundred women as young as 17. In 1941, the Soviet air force became the first in the […]

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Andy Warhol's self portrait, right, and his print of Jackie Kennedy, left, appear at the Norman Rockwell Museum (2017).
Andy Warhol prints / Norman Rockwell Museum
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Andy Warhol meets Norman Rockwell in the Berkshires

August 17, 2017
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James Warhola remembers his Uncle Andy in his uncle’s first New York apartment, sketching high-heeled shoes for an advertisement in the New York Times. He would ink the drawing and blot it, a technique he would use later in his artwork. When his uncle first painted a Campbell’s soup can, […]

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Norman Rockwell's painting 'New Kids in the Neighborhood' appears at the Norman Rockwell Museum in stockbridge.
Norman Rockwell
Visual Arts

American artists re-interpret Norman Rockwell in the 21st-century

August 4, 2016
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Roberta Dews and Eric Williams appear as a father and mother standing by a bed where two children sleep. She stands close to the boy and the girl, who lie quietly, and he looks out the window at the night. Dews and Williams are local models setting a scene as […]

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A bonfire warms visitors at the annual 10x10 Festival in Pittsfield.
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10×10 Festival heats up in Pittsfield

February 11, 2016
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Drum beats and improvisation, bonfires, dance, oil paintings and spoken word … the city is getting ready. As I revise the poem I’m working on for the WordxWord Project on Friday, Pittsfield is preparing for its annual 10 days of performance and art — with tacos. And chocolate.

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