"The flying painter" Michael Indorato Arts The Berkshires Arts Festival Returns to Ski Butternut for Its 26th Year 165 juried artists from Maine to Florida bring ceramics, furniture, glass, painting, jewelry, and more to a Fourth of July weekend tradition By Jamie Larson •
Arts Local Legend Paul Winter Plays for the 4th at Music Mountain Seven-time Grammy winner, JFK-era jazz pioneer, and longtime Litchfield County neighbor brings the Consort to Falls Village. By Jamie Larson •
Arts 13 Chairs Take a Stand: "Don't Sit on Me" at Available Items Tivoli A politically cutting group show built around chair design runs through mid-July. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Juilliard's Top Lawyer Teaches Art and Justice at Tanglewood Lesley Rosenthal's "Arts and the Rule of Law" uses music and visual art to examine what justice looks like when it holds, and when it breaks down. By Jamie Larson •
Photo by Ruth Orkin. Arts New Intimate Leonard Bernstein Doc Opens at Triplex and Moviehouse Built entirely from archival footage, "Bernstein's Wall" makes Leonard Bernstein argue his own case for art's role in a divided society By Jamie Larson • •
Arts Berkshire Opera Festival 2026 Expands with Tragedy, Comedy, and Residency An 11-year-old opera company that fills the Mahaiwe each summer adds a training program built around a rarely performed Grétry comedy By Jamie Larson • •
Arts Paris and Dyonne L'Hommie Tape a Live Talk Show at The Foundry A one-night-only variety show doubles as a scene in the hosts' own documentary. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Surface, Structure, String" Talk at Hudson Hall Curator Richard Saja, art critic Matt Moment, and CREATE Council on the Arts director Stella Yoon discuss Hudson Valley textile art during Upstate Art Weekend. By Jamie Larson •
Dig Deeper, Sara Farrell Okamura, 2026, oil on linen. Photo from LABspace. Arts Sara Farrell Okamura's Expressionist Nature at LABspace Sara Farrell Okamura’s “On The Precipice” exhibition at LABspace runs till June 28 and depicts the beauty of Mother Earth. By Taliesin Thomas •
Arts "The Remains of the Gay": Samuel Gassman Opens at Ornamentum Hand-sewn flags, antique jewel assemblages, and an artist talk on the politics embedded in salvaged objects. By Jamie Larson •
Installation photograph, Archive Gallery Arts Furniture by Architects and Sculpture at "T" Space Mark McDonald curates a dialogue between architect-designed objects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Gehry, and Margaret Saliske's wall sculptures, at 'T' Space in Rhinebeck. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Farm-to-Easel: See Jill Duffy Grow Her own Paint at Farm & Field Walnut ink, wild vine charcoal, and oil and cold wax paintings made from the same land they depict—plus foraging walks, a pigment lab, and 210 acres of trails for Upstate Art Weekend. By Jamie Larson •
