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.
Read article
Women (artists) about town …
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.
Read article
Kameelah Janan Rasheed weaves a room of all possible stories
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.
Read article
She can turn a library into a labyrinth (Sept 1 newsletter)
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.
Read article
Michael Rakowitz invokes a lost hall from the palace of Nimrud at WCMA
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.
Read article
Axis Mundo at WCMA rediscovers an artistic community in Los Angeles in the 1970s
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.
Read article
Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis transformed American dance with teachers around the world
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 […]
Read article