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Lift off in Lenox: Two Gallery Openings and a KiteFest

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports: Last Saturday in Lenox, there was something old, something new, and definitely something in the air. The annual show of new work by Lucy MacGillis, who was born in the Berkshires and lives and paints in Umbria, attracted a typically enthusiastic crowd at

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Tanglewood 2011 Opens With a Splash

It was that kind of night.   Just before hundreds of undaunted Boston Symphony Orchestra supporters, some local, many more, it seemed, from New York and Boston, descended on the grounds of Tanglewood to celebrate the opening of its 2011 season, it had rained.  Fortunately, the weather held throughout the cocktail

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Celebrating "Three Hotels" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

The spirit of the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) is best expressed on its opening night: The entire audience is always invited to the post-performance party along with the scores of young apprentices who are spending their summer honing their theatre skills under the tutelage of Broadway veterans. On Thursday, June

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Toasting Tapestry Health at Spice Dragon

Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield:Reproductive health and family planning are serious issues, but the benefit party on Monday, June 27 to mark the 38th anniversary of Tapestry Health, the only organization to provide these services in Western Massachusetts at low or no cost, was cause for celebration.

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Follow the Fold: Barrington Stage Company's 2011 Gala

The gym at St Joseph's Central High School is where Barrington Stage Company always holds its season-opening gala, and it feels like a homecoming dance. It's become a ritual for the audience to parade up North Street from the theatre to the school, and last Saturday

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Spencertown Academy's Twilight in the Garden

On Friday, June 24, Madeline Hooper and Ian Hooper (left),  turned up at the Spencertown Academy's Twilight in the Garden benefit well prepared.  What they found, thanks to hosts Jerry Croghan and Louis Hedgecock's spacious barn and adjacent tent, was a waterproof "garden" party

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Curtains Rise at Jacob's Pillow: Everybody Dance Now!

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Becket In a region rife with galas, there is perhaps none as widely anticipated as Jacob Pillow’s, which took place on Saturday, June 18. One might assume this is because the Pillow gala hews 100% true to the organization’s mission.

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Reflections on Melville Opens at Arrowhead

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield:  It may seem jarring to exhibit strikingly contemporary artwork in the rustic 1780s barn that houses the Berkshire Historical Society. It begins to make sense when you learn that the barn is part of Arrowhead, the Pittsfield farm where Herman Melville

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Farm-to-Table Dinner at Hancock Shaker Village

Hancock Shaker Village is always lovely, but on a perfect summer evening, after the crowds have dispersed, it is a beyond idyllic.  Thursday, June 16 was just such an evening, when friends of the HSV's agriculture programs gathered for a special farm-to-table dinner produced by a team of

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Chesterwood Opens Its Annual Contemporary Scultpure Show

For the past 32 years, Chesterwood, the home and gardens of the American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850 -1931) in Stockbridge has hosted a contemporary sculptures show on its lush grounds. A property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chesterwood's centerpiece is the intact studio of French

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Party for Pissaro's People Illuminates the Clark

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Williamstown: Camille Pissarro may have used his canvas to express his anarchist leanings— eschewing society portraiture to paint humble household staff at work, peasants laboring in the fields, and bustling marketplace scenes, in addition to his luminous landscapes— but the crowd that

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Norman Rockwell Celebrates Opening of Ice Age to Digital Age

Now through October 31, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, has put nostalgia on ice and is reaching back to prehistory for it's summer exhibition, “Ice Age” To The Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios. Chris Wedge (far left) and Peter de Sève, who

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