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Mount's Summer Lecture Series
Women on Women
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home announces its line-up for the 2021-2021 Summer Lecture Series. Now in its 28th year, the Summer Lecture series bring leading biographer and historians to the Berkshires. This year’s series will New York Times bestselling author Janice P. Nimura, Pulitzer-prize winner author Debby Applegate, and Biographer Sydney Ladensohn Stern.
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Nancy Rhodes Champions American Opera
Encompass Opera Theatre Produced American First
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Nancy Rhodes, founder and artistic director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, led a Zoom for an international audience of teachers. Rhodes formed Encompass just as the women’s movement was blossoming. There are special women in the American music world who have soldiered on in their professions, whatever complications were created by gender. Bursting onto the scene at about the same time as Gloria Steinem, Nancy Rhodes created an innovative company..
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The Artist Erika Marquardt
Born 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She died in 2021 in Newburyport, MA
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Erika Marquardt was an extraordinary woman, painter and artist. We were dear friends and I have followed her and Susan Erony's work since 1995. The rare collaboration between those two painters of more than 1000 small paintings ( 7"x10") lasted from 1998 to 2006. And they also collaborated on a large triptych. Altogether an amazing feat!
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The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
Produced by California's Pear Theatre
By: - Jun 21st, 2021With their fully-staged production of Christopher Chen’s work, kudos to Mountain View’s Pear Theatre for leading the way in the return to indoor theater after 15 months of pandemic-imposed darkness. The adventuresome small company not only offers socially-distanced indoor performances to a play with a full cast, but also outdoor performances and online streaming, to accommodate all manner of theater lover. Hallelujah!
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Opera Saratoga
Inspired by Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Opera Saratoga announces the company’s return to the stage for its 60th Anniversary with a season of performances inspired by the iconic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Working closely with a team of medical professionals and a dedicated COVID Safety Officer, Opera Saratoga is committed to bringing audiences and artists together safely for the 2021 Summer Festival, which will be produced outdoors during June and July in partnership with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), Saratoga Spa State Park, and Pitney Meadows Community Farm to provide three unique performance spaces for audiences to safely enjoy two fully staged productions and a special concert.
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Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions
Online Films from The Yale Center for British Art
By: - Jun 21st, 2021The Yale Center for British Art opens a student-curated online exhibition that showcases four decades of experimental British filmmaking. The result is the Center’s first exhibition presented exclusively online. Art in Focus: The Provocation of Conditions features four short films. All four films can be viewed exclusively on the Center’s website from June 21 through August 23, 2021.
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Juneteenth At Shaker Village
Celebrating BLack Shakers
By: - Jun 18th, 2021Beginning in the eighteenth century, the Shakers welcomed many African Americans into their communities. The Shakers believed that all were equal in the eyes of God, and allowed anyone to join their communities, provided that they turned over their property and all material wealth once they committed to communal life.
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
Pandemic Statements Directed by Cari Ann Shim Sham
By: - Jun 18th, 2021The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna) announces a special sneak-peek of the film "pandemic statements," directed by cari ann shim sham* with a pre-show musical performance featuring accordionist Sarah Bellows, and a post show Q&A with the "pandemic statements collaborative” in the mowna party room. The event will take place virtually on June 25th at 8 pm Eastern Time. Tickets for this event are sliding scale, pay what you wish, and include access to the 2021 mowna Biennial exhibition.
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FEVER: A 1981 Photographic Time Capsule
Allen Frame’s Portraits of New York Friends Before AIDS
By: - Jun 17th, 2021In this new book of color photographs, all shot in 1981, Allen Frame attempts to revisit a zeitgeist that had given rise to an aesthetic that was distinctly New York. The distinctiveness was related to a circle of friends, many – though not all of them - gay men, who were making art at a specific moment in New York’s history. FEVER is Frame’s personal documentary of that time, before the deepening tragedy of AIDS that would claim the lives of many of the young artists pictured in this book.
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Miroslav Antic’s Conceptual Realism
Brave New Work
By: - Jun 15th, 2021All phases of the oeuvre have been interesting going back decades to our first encounters. Trained in Europe there has been an intriguing cultural confluence of L'art pompier, formalism, conceptualism, Americana, and pop. Imagine a painting conflating Bougereau, Malevich, Duchamp, Warhol and Rosenquist. Miroslav Antic sent images of work created during the pandemic.
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Chinese Strikebreakers in North Adams
75 Men Labored in Shoe Factory at Half Wages
By: - Jun 15th, 2021On June 13 in 1870, a train arrived in North Adams with 75 young men from China hired to replace striking shoe workers. Over 2,000 people watched as the men walked to the factory under police escort. The crowd was hostile, but there was no violence. The Chinese proved to be both cheaper and more efficient than the union shoe workers they replaced.
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Jacob's Pillow
Global Pillow Available Until June 19
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Did you miss Global Pillow this weekend? There's still time to watch this global celebration of dance!
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
At Portland Museum of Art
By: - Jun 14th, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History represents a landmark moment in American art: the first major exhibition of David Driskell’s remarkable career as a painter. The exhibition is featured at Maine's Portland Museum of Art through September 12.
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Fuller Craft Museum Presents International Exhibition,
Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Developed in partnership with Fuller Craft Museum, Plymouth College of Art, and The Box (both in Plymouth, England), Another Crossing brings together artists from the United States and Europe for a global, cross-cultural effort that examines a pivotal event in world history.
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MFA Exhibits Acquisitions
New Light: Encounters and Connections
By: - Jun 14th, 2021This summer, New Light: Encounters and Connections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), brings more than 60 works of art from across the collection—including 23 newly acquired contemporary pieces—into thought-provoking dialogue. Organized into 21 “conversations,” the exhibition juxtaposes each contemporary work with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history.
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A Different Approach to Annie
Area Stage Company's Immersive Production
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Area Stage mounts 'Annie' with eight actors, all of them adults. The production takes place inside a speakeasy. This immersive 'Annie' is yet another triumph for visionary theater artist Giancarlo Rodaz. The production runs through July 4.
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Summer Theatre in Connecticut
Adapting to Change
By: - Jun 13th, 2021How theater is presented this summer continues to expand. TheaterWorks in Hartford, West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park and Ridgefield’s Thrown Stone Theater are exploring what are called “site-specific” productions – where the production’s content has a relationship to the site where it is performed.
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Tania Leon Wins 2021 Pulitzer for Music
Stride Premiered by the NY Philharmonic Before Pandemic Struck
By: - Jun 12th, 2021Tania Leon has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for music for Stride, commissionedb by Project 19 of the New York Philharmonic. The project commissioned work by women composers.
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Tanglewood and Pops for July Fourth
Moved from Traditional Hatch Shell
By: - Jun 11th, 2021This 2021 Boston Pops July 4th Spectacular will be a televised, live-streamed concert to take place under the direction of Keith Lockhart from the stage of Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, Sunday, July 4, 8-11 p.m., broadcast live on Bloomberg TV and Radio, as well as locally on WHDH-TV Channel 7.
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Tim Rodgers to Head NY's Museum of Art and Design
Move from Phoenix Art Museum
By: - Jun 10th, 2021The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has appointed Timothy R. Rodgers, PhD, to serve as the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. Rodgers is currently the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum and previously served as director of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami. Prior to the Wolfsonian, Rodgers concurrently served as director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Vice President of the Scottsdale Cultural Council. He will assume his new position on September 15, 2021.
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Horace D. Ballard Appointed to Harvard Art Museums
Was a Curator for Williams College Museum of Art
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Horace D. Ballard is the new Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, effective September 1, 2021. Ballard is currently curator of American art at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was previously assistant curator from 2017 to 2019.
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Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Playwright Jeanne Takata’s one-man, biographical drama “Hold These Truths” beautifully captures Gordon Hirabayashi’s courage and sacrifice in challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066, which consigned Japanese-Americans, including those who were American citizens, to internment camps during World War II.
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy at MASS MoCA
Benefit Concert July 17
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Wilco's Jeff Tweedy takes the stage, joined by special guest and bandmate, Nels Cline, for a concert benefiting MASS MoCA’s Joe Thompson “Yes” Fund. All proceeds directly support the museum’s mission – instilled by our founding director Joe Thompson — to champion artists and art-making in all forms.
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Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway
Summer Show at Clark Art Institute
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Nikolai Astrup is considered one of Norway’s most important artists, yet he is largely unknown outside of his homeland. Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, on view June 19 through September 19, 2021, features more than eighty-five works and celebrates this brilliant painter, printmaker, and horticulturalist.
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MFA Celebrates Juneteenth
Free Admission and Programming on June 19
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865, when news of the Civil War’s end reached Galveston, Texas—nearly two and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The MFA has hosted a community celebration marking the holiday since 2013.
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