Arts

Arts

BIFF and Pittsfield Honor Native Kent Jones

This weekend, June 2 through June 5, the Sixth Annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), will host screenings in theaters in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.  In addition to some 70 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts from 15 countries, the festival includes Q&A sessions and panel discussions with

By Editor

Arts

StageWorks: An Evening with Celeste Holm

by Betsy Miller Imagine, at 19, making your Broadway debut, then a couple of years later originating the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, stopping the show night-after-night with the song, Cain't Say No.  Imagine winning an Oscar for only the third movie you've

By Editor

Arts

Carolyn Blackwood, the Accidental Artist

It's not her fault that she trips into careers.  She hadn't intended to become a lead singer for jazz bands, she just fell into it while in graduate school.  Same with the years she spent as a tv producer in France.  And now photography:  It'

By Editor

Arts

A Happening Reading Relaunches the Basilica

A reading of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel Slow Fade by singer-songwriter, folk-music legend Will Oldham (below), who has played with the band Palace Brothers as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.  The evening celebrates the release of Slow Fade, the first in a new line of

By Editor

Arts

The Alchemy of Art and Commerce

Last Blues of Dusk by Susanna Heller at the John Davis Gallery There is a hardly-secret, yet too-seldom-applied formula for enlivening Main Streets at night. Rather than play favorites, let us offer one example of a town from outside our region that applies it brilliantly: East Hampton,

By Editor

Arts

Melissa Auf der Maur, The Rock Goddess in Our Midst, Appearing at Club Helsinki

This Saturday, March 12, Hudson's own Melissa Auf der Maur (aka MAdM) performs at Club Helsinki Hudson in a rare, experimental show—Hunt for the Heart—a mix of her own repertoire and tributes to those who have influenced her.  Born and raised in Montreal,  where she got

By Editor

Arts

Bart Gulley: The Making of a Painter

"Artists can't help but be influenced by where they work," says the abstract painter Bart Gulley.  "Particularly if they feel wedded to the place."  Gulley is wedded to both Chatham, NY, where he has lived full-time with his wife, the writer Sally Helgesen,

By Editor

Arts

Cynthia Wick: Inspired by the Berkshires

When Cynthia Wick moved from Los Angeles to Lenox, MA,  she was not so much trying to reinvent her life but rejuvenate it. A one-time movie marketing executive who'd been painting full-time for a decade while raising two sons, she and her writer-husband, Chan Gibson,

By Editor

Arts

Twenty Minutes with Actress Karen Allen

White Irish Drinkers at the Mahaiwe on February 5 The most famous person you are likely to run into on any given day in Great Barrington is also one of the nicest: Karen Allen, the actress who first became famous for her roles in Animal House and Raiders of The

By Editor

Arts

Henry Klimowicz at Berkshire Museum

Opening January 15 - 5 - 7 p.m. When you walk into the soaring Art Deco Crane Room at the Berkshire Museum, you'll do a double take because the new exhibition, Henry Klimowicz: Constructs, looks like it belongs at  MASS MoCA. The centerpiece of the exhibit is Disc II:

By Editor

Arts

Video Intelligence: The RI Interview with "Hero" Author Michael Korda

Michael Korda at home on his farm in Dutchess County. Apple-cheeked and clutching a steaming cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, the best-selling author Michael Korda doesn’t look tired when he strides from the stables at his Stone Gate Farm in Pleasant Valley, NY, on a recent Sunday

By Editor

Arts

Michael Korda on His T.E. Lawrence Bio

December 3, @ 5 p.m.; December 4 @ 5 p.m. According to Michael Korda's new biography of the British soldier and adventurer T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia; 1888 – 1935), George Bernard Shaw once scolded his friend, who had just published a biography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom,

By Editor