It must be March. One day I’m braving the wind on North Street for tacos from Placita Latina, and the next I’m walking across a hayfield in the snow …
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Contemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Lama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime
Lama Tashi Norbu forms a contemporary collage of bright color in paint and wood, and in the petals he sees a gulf and a bridge between worlds.
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Tibetan artists talk through time — Across Shared Waters
A new exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art will gather traditional Thangka paintings and contemporary Tibetan artists from around the world.
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Organic forms carry art across generations
Horace Ballard has curated the first solo show of Mary Ann Unger’s work in more than 20 years, alongside works by her daughter — the artist Eve Biddle.
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Mary Ann Unger’s sculptures go beyond the grid
To Carve a Moon from Bone opens at the Williams College Museum of Art, the first solo exhibition of Unger’s work in more than 20 years.
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Tomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities
From a distance, the colors shimmer like a crazy quilt of neighborhoods seen from the air, scarlet and blue and yellow, as though the houses were painted as bright as tropical birds …
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Frantz Zéphirin’s paintings dream and dance among the Spirits
Two beings are moving between water and air — they may be floating on the foam of a wave or hovering over the water in a light like a storm at dawn. …
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Printmaking fills the Berkshire hills with color
I’m at WCMA, after a morning at the new Sol LeWitt retrospective of silkscreens, aquatints and lithographs, sharing a quiet minute with Katsushika Hokusai’s Amida Waterfall …
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‘Strict Beauty’ reveals Sol LeWitt through his prints
If Sol LeWitt were alive today, would he be working with a programmer in fractal algorithms? Listening to the way he worked, it can be easy to imagine him experimenting in the digital age …
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