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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, felt suffocated by

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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

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99¢ & Up: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction at MCLA Gallery 51

Now - January 2, 2011 'Tis the season to make affordable artwork available to shoppers seeking artful alternatives to the mall or internet experience. This group show of art multiples is easy on the wallet, with price tags beginning at 99¢ and topping out at $99.99. The show

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When Artists Take Their Private Lives Public

Now - December 12 Morning Ritual No. 29 by David Lebe There are many fine people who believe in privacy, who think that, for instance, their names should appear in the newspaper just three times in their lives—when they are born, when they marry, and when they die. None

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What's So Funny? Humor in Art Examined

Now - November 21 Real and Imagined by Phillip Knoll Any artist who attempts to express humor through his work runs the risk of being dismissed as a cartoonist or of having produced a visual one-liner.  At the Spencertown Academy, an exhibit,  “What’s So Funny?”, curated by the artist

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Jane Eckert's Local/Global Art Gallery

Eric Forstmann, October 23 - November 6 It's not everyday when a "local" artist and a "local" gallery attract more than local interest. (And when the local collectors include Kevin Bacon, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Curtin and Melva Bucksbaum & Ray Learsy.)  But Sharon artist

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Brine Garden in Photographs & Watercolors

August 21 - September 18 Gallery on the Green in Pawling, NY will honor the 20th anniversay of The Brine Garden, a remarkable private garden there, with an exhibition of photographs, some done by the garden's creator Duncan Brine, others by Everett H. Scott, the renowned landscape photographer,

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Amy Bedik's Photographs at Germain

Now - September 7 In her black-and-white photographs, Amy Bedik seeks the eternal in both landscapes and in man-made things, often classical sculptures and architecture. Using a simple plastic camera, a piece of technological ephemera whose time has already passed, she captures images that speak of the durable and the

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20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft

Now - October 17 Catapult Prototype Table, Rob BristowThe newly formed ArtBerkshires collaboration, a partnership including Ferrin Gallery, Sienna Gallery, and The Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm, kicks off this weekend with a series of receptions and events under the umbrella 20/21 Modern Style + Studio Craft, tracing the influence

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Ida Wyman Opening at Joie de Livres

August 7 -  September 25 Ida Wyman, Girl with Curlers, 1949 When Ida Wyman began taking photographs for magazines in the 1940’s, the field was dominated by men. Starting out in the mailroom at Acme Newspictures (later UPI), Wyman soon began getting assignments from Business Week, This Week, Collier’

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Marine Combat Artist at Norman Rockwell

Thursday, August 5 @ 5:30 p.m. Chief Warrant Officer Michael Fay, one of two official combat artists currently serving in the Marine Corps, will share stories of his experiences in the field through powerful artworks reflecting personal observations of military life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Norman Rockwell MuseumStocbridge, MA

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"At Home/Not at Home" at the Hessel Museum at Bard College

June 26 - December 19 Photo by Letitia Smith While everybody knows that Bard College has a world-class theater designed by the architect Frank Gehry—the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts—few seem to know about Bard's Hessel Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS)

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