Last fall, on Rosh Hashanah, Williams College professors Jeffrey Israel and Edan Dekel began reading Moby-Dick together … and they have found the experience transformative.
Read articleVoice of the wild iris — in memory of Louise Glück
She wrote days on the edge of thaw. She spoke in the voices of the earliest ephemeral wildflowers. They move out of the earth in the sleet, and new petals shake in a wind as high as a mountain. And they become oracles …
Read articleFreedom to read and sense and explore — #bannedbooksweek
I was wandering through North Adams on a quiet afternoon, when I walked into Installation Space and saw Eve Bunting’s ‘One Green Apple’ on a shelf by the door. The shelf said ‘banned challenged books … take one — thank you.’
Read articleBeatriz Cortez’ Portals open across time
Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez speaks to people across time in Portals at the Williams College Museum of Art, sharing resonances with Antigua and Guatemala and El Salvador.
Read articleShakuntala remixes a Sanskrit play and 21st-century love story
Williams professor of theater Shanti Pillai has gathered together an ensemble of student actors and guest artists, musicians, puppeteers, a Bollywood choreographer … and they are creating a new work together.
Read articleLama Tashi Norbu fuses Tibetan mantras and tattoo art
Isaac Rivera, Williams College ’26, honors his Zapotec and Chinantec roots, as Tibetan Lama Tashi Norbu offers him a tattoo drawn from Buddhist iconography and a mantra crafted uniquely for him.
Read articleSoledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca come seeking Goya
Martín Goldin Santangelo and Soledad Barrio are delving deep into the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, translaving the rawness of his dream visions into flamenco.
Read articleTibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend
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 …
Read articleContemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
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.
Read articleLama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime
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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