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Brandt Bolding's "Farm" Celebrates Agriculture at Red Devon Restaurant

Now - August 31 Brandt Bolding, a photographer and documentary filmmaker, spent three years documenting the agricultural life of up-state New York. ”While I recognize their place, I am not seeking to reproduce somewhat standard editorial shots of rural life, or lovely images suitable for coffee table books."  Instead

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"Local" Self Portraits at the Opera House

Now - August 14 Lynn Davis, "Meroë, Sudan, 1998" toned silver gelatin print The words "local artist" can cast a pall over an exhibition, implying, as they usually do, artists whose reach does not exceed their own neighborhood.  But the current show at the Hudson Opera

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The Art Soldier Takes on BP at Ferrin Gallery

Now - July 8 Michael Boroniec, the sculptor we reported about in April  ("Portrait of the Pittsfield Artist As A Young Man"), wasn't scheduled to have another show at the Ferrin Gallery so soon.  But Boroniec's visceral response to the massive oil spill in

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The Summer of Steig at the NRM

Now - October 31 Newsweek once called him the "King of Cartoons" for his brilliant work in the New Yorker, but William Steig (1907-2003) is just as famous to several generations of children and their parents for his endearing children's book characters—Sylvester, Dr. DeSoto, Farmer

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Poetry for All!

If you're in Millerton, NY, Salisbury, CT, or Great Barrington, MA, on Thursday, April 29, Andrew Belcher (left) or Athena Fliakos may approach you out of the blue. Their intense passion may lead you to believe they are proselytizing or politicking, but all they're hoping to

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'Material World: Sculpture to Environment' Opens at MASS MoCA

Opening Reception: April 24 @ 5:30 p.m. "Orly Genger Masspeak," (2007) Nylon climbing rope with latex paint. Courtesy Larissa Goldston Gallery (Photo:Tom Powel Imaging) For Material World: Sculpture to Environment, curator Susan Cross invited seven artists to create site specific installations that relate to MASS MoCA&

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Terenchin Gallery Moves to Hudson

For those who have trouble keeping up with all that is happening on this side of the river, it comes as great news that Terenchin Gallery in Catskill, where Hudson artists Frank Faulkner, Jim Holl and Laetitia Hussain have had solo shows, has moved to Hudson.  The current show there,

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Norman Rockwell's American Dream: The Auteur Theory

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Norman Rockwell Museum Turns Back Time

The Norman Rockwell Museum has turned the clock back to 1960. "It was a very significant moment in Norman Rockwell's life," says Corry Kanzenberg, the musuem's curator/archival collections, who has overseen the reinstallation of Rockwell's studio on the museum's

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"These Days: Elegies for Modern Times" Opening at MASS MoCA

These days I seem to think about How all the changes came about my way And I wonder if I'll see another highway           —Jackson Browne These Days: Elegies for Modern Times, the new exhibit opening on April 4 at MASS MoCA, gets its name from a Jackson Browne

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Presenting The First Annual Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts

For the past eight years, Bard College at Simon’s Rock has quietly hosted an Annual International Women’s Day conference.  This year, Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, the director, believed the theme, The Power of Women in the Arts, had sufficient strength to exceed the bounds of the Great Barrington

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An Insider's Look at Vassar's Outsider Art

Vassar College has been collecting art since its founding in 1864, and the school's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center now has nearly 18,000 works, including the Warburg Collection of Old Master Prints and Matthew Vassar's collection of Hudson River School paintings. The holdings also include

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