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A Celebration of Modernism at Stonover Farm

Artists, artisans, art-lovers, craft collectors, and furniture fetishists from the Rural Intelligence region and beyond gathered at The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm on Friday, August 6 for the opening of 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft. Innkeeper and gallery owner Suky Werman (left, with her brother-in-law Chris Sallom) engaged

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Friends of Clermont Raise a Glass for the Cottage Restoration

Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea are friends indeed to both the Clermont State Historic Site, where Hermes serves on the board, and to Rural Intelligence, where Carey writes his inimitable Wandering Eye blog.  Last Saturday, August 7, on behalf of Clermont, they hosted a benefit cocktail reception at their riverfront

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Ida Wyman Show Opens at Joie de Livre

Joie de Livres a gallery/bookstore in a comfortable space at the back of Salisbury Wines was the scene on Saturday evening, August 7, of the opening of an exhibition of photography by the renowned photojournalist Ida Wyman, 84, who flew east for the occasion from Madison, Wisconsin. Three generations:

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Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Housewarming

On Friday, August 6, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation celebrated the opening of its new office building at 800 N. Main Street in Sheffield, MA,  with an open house attended by donors, advisors, fund holders and grantees from Berkshire, Columbia, northeast Dutchess and northwest Litchfield counties. “At Berkshire Taconic, we

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ArtBerkshires: A New Creative Collaboration

On Wednesday, August 4, at the Sienna Gallery in Lenox, the women driving ArtBerkshires—Leslie Ferrin, Suky Werman and Sienna Patti (left to right)—held a reception to celebrate 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft, a series of exhibits and programs that links mid-century Modernism to contemporary art and design.

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Clowning Around at the Berkshire Fringe Gala

Summer culture in our region is defined by historic institutions such as Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow and the Berkshire Theatre Festival, which is why the edgy Berkshire Fringe Festival has been embraced by forward-thinking arts enthusiasts of all ages, who attended the opening night "gala" at the

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The Chattering Class Communes at Berkshire WordFest

It's hard to remember that The Mount was facing the possibility of a bank foreclosure a little more than two years ago ("The Age of Innocence Is Over,"RI, February 27, 2008.) Under the leadership of executive director Susan Wissler and board chairman Gordon Travers, Edith

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Paradise Found at Olana

"I'll have a Dark & Stormy, please," one guest requested of the bartender, seemingly unaware of how portentous her cocktail order might be.  But, as it usually does, the weather cooperated on Saturday, July 24, for Olana's annual (rain or shine) summer garden party.

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The World Premiere of "Pool Boy" at Barrington Stage

Has there ever been a Berkshires theater audience so hoping for a hit? Most of the people who gathered at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2 in Pittsfield on July 21 know and adore composer Nikos Tsakalakos (near left with his onstage alter ego Jay Armstrong Johnson) who has

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Photography Show Opens at Carrie Haddad in Hudson

Lovers of the art of photography, in all its infinite variety, gathered on Saturday evening at Carrie Haddad Photographs for the opening of a show that featured photography of wildly divergent bents.  Andrian Fernandez, the Cuban photographer who Rural Intelligence's Wandering Eye Carey Maloney and his partner Hermes

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Chatham's Crandell Theatre Reopens At Last

The official ribbon cutting was on Friday night and the tv crews were there to take in the spectacle as the Crandell Theatre, dark since the untimely death of owner Tony Quirino last January, reopened with Toy Story 3.  Crandell loyalists were relieved to find that, as promised, the only

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Bard's Summerscape Festival is a Hudson Valley Happening

Bard Summerscape is like a rural version of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It brings together visual and performing artists as both presenters and audience, creating a cultural center of gravity for the Hudson Valley, which is one of the goals of Bard College president

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