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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WCMA rediscovers a lost medieval gallery
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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Meleko Mokgosi infuses everyday scenes with light at the Williams College Museum of Art
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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Northern Berkshire museums meet in color field abstraction and colossal collage
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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Art in her hands at International Women’s Day — By the Way column
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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Field Farm looks to Frank Lloyd Wright for Modern design
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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James McNeill Whistler and his mother reunite in the Berkshires
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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