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Williams College Museum of Art

Kate Abbott
Carnitas from Placita Latina in Pittsfield, filled with pork and cilangro and salsa verde, offer warmth on a cold morning.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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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
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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 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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Students wait to choose artwork to borrow from the Williams College Museum of Art — they will be able to hang a work from the collection in their own rooms as part of the WALLS program.
Williams College Museum of Art
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed charts galaxies and infinite libraries

October 20, 2021
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In an octagonal room at the Williams College Museum of Art, abstract forms ring the walls like astral bodies, like baby stars half visible in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust.

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A reader sits on one of Louise Borgeois' giant glowing eye sculptures outside of the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Women (artists) about town …

September 2, 2021
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I walked through WCMA on Monday afternoon, with the work of women artists around me, and wondered where else have I seen work by women in the Berkshires this summer … And I’m finding the answer more challenging than I expected.

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed's panels in text and abstract images reflect the shifting stories in her installation at WCMA.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed weaves a room of all possible stories

September 2, 2021
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I’m standing in a round room at the top of the Williams College Museum of Art and seeing it transformed through Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s eyes.

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A sculpture in Madrid honors sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Creative Commons courtesy photo
Photo by by Manuel M.V.
Visual Arts

She can turn a library into a labyrinth (Sept 1 newsletter)

September 2, 2021
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WCMA has reopened, after more than a year closed in the pandemic, and I am transfixed by Amalia Mesa-Bains’ Library of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.

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Artist Michael Rakowitz reconstructs relief carvings from the palace at Nimrud at the Williams College Museum of Art. Image courtesy of the artist and the museum.
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Michael Rakowitz invokes a lost hall from the palace of Nimrud at WCMA

January 8, 2020
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At the Williams College Museum of Art, Internationally acclaimed artist Michael Rakowitz has re-imagined a hall in the palace of Nimrud, built c. 1350 BCE in the historic Assyrian city on the Tigris river.

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Close up of Meza Mundo's 'The Flying Woman' in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Axis Mundo at WCMA rediscovers an artistic community in Los Angeles in the 1970s

November 24, 2019
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A group of artists grew together in Southern California. They were kept out of galleries and museums and mainstream media, so they made their own spaces. And they are gathered together again now in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art — an exhibit that has won national attention.

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Jacob's Pillow founder Ted Shawn is seen here with his wife and partner Ruth St. Denis in 1916. This photo by Franklin Price Knott was one of the first color photographs to appear in National Geographic.
Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis / Jacob's Pillow
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Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis transformed American dance with teachers around the world

June 8, 2018
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On a warm summer night, a company of dancers comes to a park in Tokyo to see Koshiro Matsumoto, the foremost man dancer of Japan, performing kabuki. He performs to the music of stringed samisens and flute, drums and singers, transforming from one role to another — a young woman, a […]

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