Arts Tab Benoit Brings "Soul of the Swamp" Tour to the Mahaiwe The Cajun bluesman who stopped recording for 13 years to fight for Louisiana's wetlands is back—with a guitar, a cord, and an amp. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart and Mahler with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood A concert pairing two composers at their most intimate—with Erin Morley as soprano in Mahler's child-like, unsettling Fourth. By Jamie Larson •
Arts "Bada Swing!": Two Aging Lounge Lizards at the Stissing Center "Bada Swing!" brings its New York Comedy Festival-tested musical comedy to Pine Plains for a night of nostalgia, ego, and slow unraveling. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Lenox Summer Art Festival Returns to Lilac Park 50-plus juried artists and artisans take over downtown Lenox for a free weekend of original work, live music, and food. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Navajo Weaving Meets Computer Chip design at Bard The first full survey of Marilou Schultz traces the unexpected territory between Diné weaving tradition and computer chip design, now on view at CCS Bard's Hessel Museum. By Jamie Larson •
Location: West Stockbridge, MA "The Van Gogh Shogh" Makes Its Berkshire Premiere at The Foundry Donna Oblongata's award-winning solo clown show uses Van Gogh's life and legacy to ask what art is worth, and why we keep making it. By Jamie Larson •
Arts “Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition” Celebrates Cage’s Method of Chance Running through July 12 at the Bard College Stevenson Library, the exhibition organized by Jeffery Lependorf displays art from collections across the Bard community. By Sparrow •
Arts This Summer's Art Season asks More Questions Than it Answers Major exhibitions and institutions asking what this moment actually means. By Jamie Larson •
"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 •
