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Carnitas from Placita Latina in Pittsfield, filled with pork and cilangro and salsa verde, offer warmth on a cold morning.
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Tibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend

March 3, 2023
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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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Marie-Dolma Chophel's abstract painting Inner Dialog pulses with elemental color in blues and greens, amber and dun. Press photo courtesy of WCMA, taken by Kate Abbott
Marie-Dolma Chophel
Visual Arts

Contemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’

March 2, 2023
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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
Visual Arts

Lama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime

March 2, 2023
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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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A closeup image shows the Buddha in a traditional Tibetan Thangka at the Williams College Museum of Art. Press photo courtesy of WCMA from the Jack Shear Collection
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Tibetan artists talk through time — Across Shared Waters

February 8, 2023
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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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Eve Biddle's New Relics, works in ceramics, speak to her mother's work 30 years ago.
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Visual Arts

Organic forms carry art across generations

September 7, 2022
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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 abstract sculpture shows interwoven curves at WCMA.
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Visual Arts

Mary Ann Unger’s sculptures go beyond the grid

August 15, 2022
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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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Wanga Neges appears in Tomm El-Saieh's 'Imaginary City,' a solo show of large paintings in vivid abstract color, at the Clark Art Institute.
Tomm El-Saieh
Visual Arts

Tomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities

May 25, 2022
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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 paints a swirl of divine spirits in Les Mystères de l’Initiation Mystique (Metamorphosis of Erzulie Freda and Erzulie Dantor), 1999, Press image courtesy of Central Fine.
Frantz Zéphirin
Visual Arts

Frantz Zéphirin’s paintings dream and dance among the Spirits

May 25, 2022
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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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Katsushika Hokusai’s Amida Waterfall Deep in the Distance on the Kiso Road appears at WCMA. Press image courtesy of the museum
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Printmaking fills the Berkshire hills with color

March 10, 2022
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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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Sol LeWitt's print Brushstrokes in Two Different Colors in Two Directions appears in Strict Beauty at the Williams College Museum of Art. Press image by Kate Abbott courtesy of WCMA
Sol LeWitt
Visual Arts

‘Strict Beauty’ reveals Sol LeWitt through his prints

March 9, 2022
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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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