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"Over the Top: American Posters from World War I" Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum

As anyone who has spent time at the Norman Rockwell Museum knows, the quintessential American illustrator was a politically-minded man with a highly developed social conscience.  Rockwell's spirit lives on not only in the museum's extraordinary permanent collection of his paintings, but also in the temporary

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"Forces of Nature" at Kent's Ober Gallery

"Some of my best clients are my former students," says Rob Ober, the former tennis pro at the Sharon Country Club who became an art dealer two years ago when he opened the Ober Gallery in Kent. "One day during a lesson, the man I was teaching

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6th Annual Local Authors Day in Sheffield

If you have any lingering doubts that our region has more than its fair share of writers in residence, just take a look at the list (below) of 49 authors and illustrators who will be signing books in Sheffield on Saturday, November 1, at the 6th annual Bushnell-Sage Library'

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Infinity Music Hall Debuts in Norfolk

Live music and good booze are a great combo, but you don't always get to enjoy them at the same time when you attend a concert.  At the just-opened Infinity Music Hall, an intimate yet grand 300-seat club in a restored 1883 building in Norfolk, CT, you can

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The White Gallery Reopens in Lakeville

Susan and Tino Galluzzo believe in second careers, second marriages and second acts. She's a former lawyer and he's a former investment banker, who became art dealers six years ago when they opened The White Gallery in Lakeville. Two years later, they became husband and wife

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A Vassar Visionary: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Brings Her Collection to her Alma Mater

Since 2002, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Vassar class of '89) has been exhibiting contemporary art at Salon 94, which is located downstairs from her home on New York's Upper East Side. Now she is bringing pieces from her cutting-edge private collection to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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A Choreographer Climbs the Walls at Bard

The Richard B. Fisher Center helped put Bard College on the cultural map, and now the Fisher Center is putting dancers on the roof of the iconic Frank Gehry-designed building. This weekend and next, site-specific Canadian choreographer Noémie Lafrance will premiere a work called Rapture on the brushed stainless-steel exterior

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Music: Something to Talk About

The first time cellist Yehuda Hanani saw his future wife, Hannah, he was in a taxi heading to his apartment from the airport following an out-of-town engagement.  Stopped at a red light at the intersection 95th and Broadway, where the Thalia used to be, he saw two young women hurrying

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From Great Barrington to Off Broadway: Here Comes "Castronauts"

"The reputation of the Berkshires' being a hideout for artists is true," says Bobby Houston, an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker (Mighty Times: The Children's March, 2004), who moved to Great Barrington a few years ago from his longtime home in California. "Castronauts was born

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Romantic Music and Sexual Intrigue

Their relationship is the stuff of legend and, of course, song.  When they met at the home of a mutual friend of both their parents, she was just nine, he eighteen, and her piano playing so inspired him that he resolved to give up law to study music with her

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'The Duchess' Producer Carolyn Marks Blackwood Talks About Her Film

In 1998, Dutchess County resident Carolyn Marks Blackwood and her partner in Magnolia May Films, Gabrielle Tana, optioned the film rights to a soon-to-be-published biography, Georgiana, The Duchess of Devonshire.  The book went on to become a bestseller here and in the United Kingdom, and its author Amanda Foreman won

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Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast? James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma

You don't have to wait until next summer at Tanglewood to hear James Taylor and Yo Yo Ma give an outdoor concert in the Berkshires. The two local favorites will be peforming live on the porch of the Red Lion Inn on Monday, September 15, as part of

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