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Pittsfield Gallery Crawl

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: Sunshine heralded the first day of August, illuminating two new exhibitions at Pittsfield galleries. Leslie Ferrin opened two shows of ornately decorated porcelain sculpture. In Human Made Wild,Jason Walker explores the intersection of nature and culture in work that wavers between whimsical and disturbing.

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Woodstock Nation Lives!

There was a redawning of the Age of Aquarius on Thursday, July 30 in Chatham, as a throng more than 1,000 strong, many wearing tie-dyed tees, poured into town to attend two screenings at the Crandell Theatre of Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's latest film, Taking Woodstock,

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Friends of the Fringe Come Together

The Berkshire Fringe Festival kicked off its fifth season on July 27 with an innovative performance at Bard College at Simon's Rock: five different pieces of theater, film and dance all set to the same six-and-a-half minute electronic soundscape by Peter Wise, one of the Fringe's

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Berkshire Theatre Festival Celebrates at The Mount

The Berkshires' arts scene depends on volunteers and donations of every type, which was clear at the Berkshire Theatre Festival party at The Mount on July 26 that honored Betsey McKearnan and raised funds for BTF's education programs. She was serenaded by the cast of Candide and

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Openings: Pittsfield Contemporary Art Show

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: It felt a little bit like Brooklyn in the Berkshires on Saturday, July 25, as Pittsfield Contemporary opened its second annual show of work by artists living and/or working in Pittsfield.  The city’s art crowd, in all its hatted and tatted splendor, filled

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Olana's Colorful Festival of Chinese Music, Lanterns and Dance

Inspiration for the Olana Partnership's Seventh Annual Summer Party came from a Chinese bed that was amongst Hudson River School painter Frederic Church's vast collection of international treasures and still lives on Olana's second floor, a Forbidden City all its own that we all

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Art Omi: The Shangri la on the Hill

On Saturday, July 18, at the culmination of their annual International Artists Residency, Art Omi gave a farewell party for this year's residents on the eve of Open Studios day. Each year, approximately 30 artists, some established, others emerging, are selected from a pool of applicants that generally

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Shakespeare & Company Is Up to the Challenge

What better way to raise money for a theater company than with a one-time-only theater event? Shakespeare & Company, which needs to raise $1 million to get an $800,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to complete its $10 million capital campaign, invited supporters to see a staged reading

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A Midsummer's Night Music at Aston Magna

Aston Magna is the name of both a Great Barrington estate with stunning views of the Taconic range and a 37-year-old music-and-humanities foundation that is devoted to early music and its cultural context. On Saturday night, the latter celebrated at the former following a concert of Music in the Time

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Openings: Synchronicity at Bard SummerScape

Bard opened its seventh annual SummerScape Festival on Saturday, July 11, with a gala dinner in the Spiegeltent (left) and a performance of Lucinda Child's 1979 Dance, a landmark collaboration with composer Philip Glass and artist Sol LeWitt, who made the black-and-white movie that is projected onto a

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The Norman Rockwell Museum's Blessed 40th Birthday Party

It sometimes seems that every resident of Stockbridge over the age of 40 has an anecdote about posing for Norman Rockwell, which may be why the Norman Rockwell Museum's supporters feel such a deep bond with the place. Hundreds of them of all ages showed up on Thursday,

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Gallery Hopping in Lenox

Church Street in Lenox was hopping early Saturday evening, thanks to a well-attended gallery crawl that had crowds spilling out of the galleries onto porches and sidewalks.  Church Street Gallery was featuring the work of outsider artist James Martin, an 81-year-old Seattle recluse who, regrettably, was not present for his

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