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  • Pooches at the Clark

    Walking the Dogs

    By: Clark - Mar 18th, 2024

    On Friday, April 19, the Clark Art Institute offers free activities as part of its April School Vacation Week programming. At 10 am, the Clark hosts Earth Walk with Dogs, offering three walks through its trails, ranging in difficulty. From 11 am–1 pm, the Clark presents a pop-up display of dogs and nature-themed works on paper in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, located in the Manton Research Center.

  • Erin Go Bragh Yourself

    Luck of the Irish

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 18th, 2024

    Once a year I get to celebrate my half Irish heritage with a vengeance. That means corned beef and cabbage and raucous singalong at the Freight Yard Pub in North Adams.

  • Berkshire Jazz Festival

    Tickets on Sale

    By: Ed Bride - Mar 18th, 2024

    Starting with an open jam session and ending with a jazz brunch at Dottie’s, the events include the popular Jazz Crawl, a swing dance, the jazz prodigy concert introducing two (!) young musicians to Berkshires audiences, and headline concerts featuring Brandon Goldberg and Marcus Roberts. The box office is open, and you can find a link at the end of this newsletter.

  • Carnegie Hall Supports Young Musicians

    Nezet-Seguin Conducts the Alumni of Young People's Orchestra

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 18th, 2024

    The National Youth Orchestra Alumni performed works by George Gershwin and Dmitri Shostakovich at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducted. Dimtri Trifonov performed Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with flair, flash and deep feeling.

  • Conflating Lovecraft, Mugar and Houellebecq

    iterary Sources for an Artist’s Work  

    By: Martin Mugar - Mar 18th, 2024

    Of course my painting is not in the realm of the noxious monsters of Lovecraft but the eventual push of the visual event off the surface seems to speak to a similar aggressive desire to reach out and engage the viewer. It also begins to abandon the pleasant color field that had dominated my work from the beginning of the millennium. 

  • The Far Country

    Berkeley Rep's Fine Version of a Drama Set in Nearby Environs

    By: Victor Cordell - Mar 15th, 2024

    Gee, a Chinese immigrant living in San Francisco, wishes to visit China but needs documentation that will ensure his return. To obtain that, he must undergo interrogation at the notorious Angel Island detention center. Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, immigration officials are loathe to facilitate entry and re-entry into the U.S. by Asians, who are crafty in developing strategies to overcome the resistance.

  • American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie

    Continuingto look at weimar and its Repercussions

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 15th, 2024

    The American Composers Orchestra joined Carnegie Hall’s musical exploration of the Weimar Republic.  Central to the evening’s presentation were two pieces:  One, ‘Pirate Jenny’ from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera.  The other ‘Clans’ from Lowok Shoppola of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.

  • Mother by Kelsey Shultis at Eclipse Gallery

    New Paintings and Works on Paper

    By: Eclipse - Mar 15th, 2024

    The paintings of Mother explore the diverse aspects of Motherhood, from the Divine Feminine to the Kitchen Witch.

  • Dara Haskins at Corridor ’62

    When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint Them

    By: Charles Giuliano - Mar 12th, 2024

    It was energizing to meet the 31-year-old artist, Dara Haskins, who was born in Baltimore and now lives in Philadelphia. We found it impossible to resist her charm and enthusiasm. She was eager to sell me a small painting but I fended off stating that I was there as a critic. Her intent is to raise enough money to return to Cuba where she recently resided for a month.

  • Williams Collage Art Museum

    Designs for Its Stand Alone Venue

    By: WCMA - Mar 07th, 2024

    Prominently located at the western entrance to the Williams College campus and the town, the new Williams College Museum of Art is conceived to serve the College, the local community, and visitors to the Berkshires through a cluster of four program areas. While slightly set apart like pavilions, the better to accommodate their multiple uses, the program areas are unified through their materials, their openness to the natural setting, their organization around a central gathering place, and a distinctive overarching roof that shelters them all.

  • The Clark Art Institute Selects Bénédicte Savoy

    2024 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing.

    By: Clark - Mar 07th, 2024

    The Clark Art Institute has selected Bénédicte Savoy as the recipient of the 2024 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. Savoy is a professor of art history at Technische Universität in Berlin and is a noted expert on the provenance and repatriation of works of art, including looted art and other forms of illegally acquired cultural objects.

  • Moulin Rouge the Musical

    Equity Production in Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Mar 08th, 2024

    Moulin Rouge the Musical is gorgeous to look at but slight on story An equity national touring production runs through March 17 in Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Much of Moulin Rouge carries the celebratory aura of a party.

  • Castalian Quartet at the 92nd Street Y

    Sir Stephen Hough Pianist and Composer

    By: Susan Hall - Mar 12th, 2024

    The brash and lively Castalian String Quartet and man-for-all-seasons Sir Stephen Hough performed at the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

  • Popular Artists at Tanglewood

    New Names Added

    By: BSO - Mar 07th, 2024

    New additions to the Popular Artist Series at the Tanglewood Music Festival bring a parade of classic rock, contemporary pop, and R&B stars to the Koussevitzky Music Shed between June 20 and Independence Day, supplementing several more previously announced dates in July and August. New additions to the Shed lineup include Roger Daltrey with KT Tunstall, Brandi Carlile, and Jon Batiste, as well as John Fogerty and George Thorogood on tour together and Jason Mraz with the Boston Pops conducted by Sean O’Loughlin.

  • Grumpy Old Men The Musical

    At Seven Angels Theatre

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 07th, 2024

    Most of the humor is of the middle-school-boy type – lots of insults and adolescent sexual innuendo. How much of this you find funny or just too much depends on your sense of humor and how much seeing grown men call each other a variety of offensive words is enjoyable. How many sexual jokes do you want John’s father, who is ninety, to make? For me, it was way overdone.

  • Million Dollar Quartet

    At ACT-CT

    By: Karen Isaacs - Mar 04th, 2024

    Hunter Foster, who played Sam Philips in the original Broadway cast, directs this production with a fine hand. His experience with the show reveals itself in the nuances and choices he makes. The scenic design by Josh Smith shows us the studio of Sun Records in Memphis in the 1950s. The founder of the studio, Phillips helped put rock ‘n roll on the charts.

  • Blue Heron's Stillness

    By: Cheng Tong - Mar 03rd, 2024

    The blue heron, a majestic bird with piercing yellow eyes and a spear-like beak, embodies a unique paradox. It is a creature of both profound stillness and lightning-fast action. But it is the heron’s stillness that truly captivates, a quality that has enthralled artists, writers, and philosophers for centuries. This stillness isn’t just an absence of movement; it’s a potent force, a language of patience, focus, and a deep connection with the environment.

  • Mira Cantor Dig

    Kingston Gallery

    By: Kingston - Mar 03rd, 2024

    In my new paintings I am imagining “evolutants” stuck in the mud, from remains of the flora and fauna of the smallest cell-like creatures to the evolution of our present human form, painted as staggered layers of history. They are colorful, animated patterns of biological and imaginary forms painted in acrylic and oil.

  • Swing into Spring

    Jazz in the Berkshires

    By: Ed Bride - Mar 01st, 2024

     Spring fast approaches, with good news from our friends at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, and the opening of the box office for our own Pittsfield CityJazz Festival.

  • Miller's View From the Bridge

    Long Wharf

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 29th, 2024

    I was apprehensive about Long Wharf’s new production, which runs through Sunday, March 10, mainly when I read that director James Dean Palmer is known for his “reinterpretations” of classics.

  • La Jolla Playhouse Presents Redwood

    Is Living in a Forest Canopy the Answer

    By: Sharon Eubanks - Mar 03rd, 2024

    Redwood, a musical drama conceived and written by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, is currently playing at the La Jolla Playhouse.  Composer Kate Diaz provides the expansive score with lyrics by Diaz and Landau.  Redwood tells the story of Jesse (played by Idina Menzel), a hard-charging, no-holds-barred New Yorker who is struggling to find purpose in her life following the death of her young adult son. 

  • The 74th Berlinale

    The International Flm Festival in Berlin

    By: Angelika Jansen - Feb 26th, 2024

    The 74th Berlinale is Europe's first international film festival of the year. Always a glamorous happening with stars galore, this year's events from February 15-25th,  2024 have drawn to a close.

  • Squirrels, Taiji and Stillness

    By: Cheng Tong - Feb 27th, 2024

    The squirrel comes each day to eat peanuts with me on one of the benches in the meditation garden that surrounds my training and teaching deck.  Sometimes she will sit in my lap, sometimes she will sit on the cushion beside me, and sometimes she just sits on the cinder block armrest.  But she comes every day, and several times at that.

  •   Two at Boston Sculptors

    Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox

    By: Boston Sculptors - Feb 27th, 2024

    First Friday, March 1, 5 - 8:30pm, will feature the reception & artist talks at Boston Sculptors in the South End. Works by Ed Andrews and Leslie Wilcox will be on view through March 31. There will be artist talks on Saturday March 16 from 2-5 PM.

  • Gloucester's Legendary Dogtown Common

    Conjured by Playwright Peter Littlefield and Artist Gabrielle Barzaghi

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 25th, 2024

    Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines, shunned for practicing witchcraft. It was inspired by Charles Mann’s 1906, The Story of Dogtown or In the Heart of Cape Ann, that compiles recollections about the outsiders, berry-pickers, subsistence farms and self-proclaimed witches that inhabited Dogtown after it was abandoned in the early 1800s.

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