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ArtCircus: A Storefront Artist Project Benefit

In 2002, artist Maggie Mailer founded the Storefront Artist Project in downtown Pittsfield with three goals: to provide non-traditional, visually accessible studio space for artists; to present innovative exhibitions and installations; and to bring artists and art-making to under-served communities. On Saturday May 31, hundreds of the organization's

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Mass MoCA: Good Times at the Badlands Opening

Our friend Leslie Ferrin, the Pittsfield gallery owner, filed this report from the opening of Mass MoCA's powerful new show, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscapet.  "The mood was upbeat last Saturday night. The enthusiastic audience included a lively mix of artists, curators, musuem and gallerists, patrons and

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Trade Secrets: Martha Stewart Makes the Scene

As usual, Martha Stewart  was among the eager, early buyers at Trade Secrets, the massive rare plant and antique sale at Lion Rock Farm in Sharon, which benefits Women's Support Services. As she stopped at every booth (including  potter Guy Wolff's left), Martha took photographs and

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Opening Night of the Berkshire International Film Festival

As some 500 people streamed into the Mahaiwe Theater on May 15 to see Man on Wire, the award-winning documentary about tightrope walker Philippe Petit, which opened the Third Annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), Chatham artist Roger Mason (left) was standing across the street, painting the marquee of the

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Saturday Night in Salisbury: Upstairs, Downstairs

On the ground floor of a 19th century colonial with a picket fence in front on Academy Street in Salisbury, Merideth McGregor runs Joie de Livres, a shop selling rare books, fine art and objets d'art, which she's set up to feel like a literary salon.

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Foodies Unite To Help Their Neighbors

Some two dozen restaurants, caterers, bakers and wine shops donated a buffet feast for Monday night's Mayfest benefit for Construct Inc, which provides homeless prevention and supportive housing services for people with low to moderate incomes in the Southern Berkshires.  The event was sponsored by the South Council

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Shakespeare & Company Celebrates the Bard's Birthday

Shakespeare & Company celebrated the Bard's 444th birthday in Lenox on Wednesday night with a party and performance that featured excerpts from the company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which has traveled 20,000 miles this winter to play before more than 40,000 students.

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Dutchess County Realtors Rebuild Together

Starr Place was the setting on Thursday evening of a benefit pour for the Dutchess County branch of Rebuilding Together, a national organization that lends a hand (and more) to those who cannot properly maintain their homes.  This  year in Dutchess alone, over 100 sponsors and contributors and more than

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Gala: A Moveable Feast for the Hudson Opera House

On Saturday evening, a colorful crowd--writers, artists, composers, academics, and performers of every stripe--gathered at the Hudson Opera House for cocktails and chatter, then scattered in twenty-seven different directions to attend dinner parties in nearby private homes.  The event raised funds for the non-profit Hudson Opera House, Inc., which since

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Kent Film Fest Launches; BIFF Announces Roster

It was hard to tell who was most excited at the opening night cocktail party (scroll down for pictures) on March 27 of the Kent Film Festival: the filmmakers, whose movies would be screened over the weekend; the volunteers, whose hard work made it all happen; or the fans who

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Toasting the Kent Film Festival

Film festival board member Jill Zinzi with actor/teacher Roger Hendricks Simon, who stars in Georgiana Nestor's film The Sublet; Barbara Fisher, the president of the National Vaccine Information Center, with New Milford director Judy Apicella who features Fisher in her documentary What Are We Doing To Our

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Berkshire Ides of March Gallery Hop

On Saturday evening, Ferrin Gallery's double opening--Cynthia Consentino's solo show Exquisite Corpse and a group show 2D + 3D--gave a crowd of artists and art aficionados an opportunity to contrast 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional views of like subjects.  Later this spring, selected works from the shows will appear

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