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Kate Abbott
Illustration from a manuscript of Firdwasi's Shahnameh, Iranian, probably Qazvin, Safavid dynasty (1501-1732) at the Yale Art Museum in New Haven
Illustration from Firdwasi's Shahnameh / Yale Art Museum
Visual Arts

A Mughal artist tells the story of the Magi in Persian perspective

December 8, 2017
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On a winter afternoon afternoon, a painting stands at a meeting of worlds – an Adoration of the Magi inspired by Persian and Mughal miniatures at the Williams College Museum of Art.

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An inset stained glass panel, a Grisaille from France, shines among diamond panes.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

WCMA rediscovers a lost medieval gallery

September 20, 2017
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The Williams College Museum of Art has recovered a vanished room. It feels like a kind of mythical medieval place, with a floor of handmade tiles and dark plaster walls, oak beams and diamond-paned windows with inset stained glass. It was designed almost 80 years ago, walled away and almost […]

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In his Democratic Intuition project at the Williams College Museum of Art, Meleko Mokgosi (Botswana, b. 1981) Williams ’07, investigates contradictions in democracy.
Meleko Mokgosi / WCMA
Visual Arts

Meleko Mokgosi infuses everyday scenes with light at the Williams College Museum of Art

July 12, 2017
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Cheetahs raise their hackles against an abstract background like blown sand. Two boys play with a sleek black dog in a spare, shaded room, in a bar of bright sun from the doorway. A well-dressed man in khaki leans back in a director’s chair in a room rich with thick […]

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The Williams College Museum of Art displays original work by Robert Rauschenberg in summer 2017 along with material from his newly opened archives.
Robert Rauschenberg / WCMA
Visual Arts

Northern Berkshire museums meet in color field abstraction and colossal collage

July 11, 2017
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In 1999, the summer Mass MoCA opened, Robert Rauschenberg came several times to see his work installed in the football-field-sized gallery in building 5. The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece gathered images from athletes and animals to umbrellas and planets. In collage or silkscreened onto fabrics, aluminum and copper, […]

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Elizabeth King's exhibit, 'Radical Small' opens articulate hands at Mass MoCA. Photo by Kate Abbott
Elizabeth King / Mass MoCA
Visual Arts

Art in her hands at International Women’s Day — By the Way column

March 9, 2017
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Women known around the world in art and music have come to the Berkshires, and we remember them as Women’s History Month honors International Women’s Day.

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The Bloedel family filled their garden at Field Farm with sculpture, including works by Richard M. Miller and Herbert Ferber.
Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Field Farm looks to Frank Lloyd Wright for Modern design

September 7, 2016
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In the Folly, bright panels of Modern paintings hang on the curved stone wall behind the couch and a broad window looks out across the pond and the hayfields. On the lawn bees hum in the azaleas, and a metal sculpture of a woman looks over her drawn-up knees to […]

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Closeup: James McNeill Whistler, The Kitchen, 1858, Etching on chine collé on paper.
Clark Art Institute
Visual Arts

James McNeill Whistler and his mother reunite in the Berkshires

September 23, 2015
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Whistler’s Mother has come to visit. Rembrandt-like, her face shines clear against a dark and grey background, said Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute.

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