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Maggie Mailer's "The Volcano Sitters" Opens at the Ferrin Gallery

As if it were a collection of short stories, Maggie Mailer has given her new show of paintings a title—The Volcano Sitters—that is metaphoric. As the daughter of legendary novelist Norman Mailer, she instinctively infuses her paintings with narrative and invective, and she is happy to explain in

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Opening: Women on Display

The Storefront Artist Project presents “Women on Display,” an exhibition curated by the art historian Keith Shaw. All six featured artists are women: Jessica Michelson Berger, Cynthia Consentino, Samantha Dewitt, Susan Graber, Jeanet T. Ingalls, and Rebecca Weinman. The show, which will be on view until June 29, is an

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Young at Art

Geoffrey Young doesn't expect you to buy anything at his second-floor gallery on Railroad Street in Great Barrington, and he's OK with that. "Nine out of ten people who come into the gallery don't buy art" says the elfin Young with surprising

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One of a Kind: The Magic of Prints

For the collector, the appeal of prints is their accessibility. They are, quite simply, more affordable than other unique works of art. For the artist, printmaking offers an opportunity to experiment and, consequently, often acts as a catalyst for change in his other work. This Saturday the Spencertown Academy launches

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Photography: Eban, Among Others

If you are going to tell the story of your life, it helps to have had an interesting one. Gerard Malanga has. A poet whose work has appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, The Paris Review and The New Yorker, the multi-faceted Malanga is remembered by students of art history as

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Hudson: A Fork and Fine Art Fete

The Columbia County Council on the Arts is at it again. Not content with long ago having won our hearts and minds, they now appear to be after our stomachs, as well. On Saturday, March 1, they will celebrate their 13th Annual Juried Art Show with a gala opening and

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A New View of the Hudson

Until last year, film-producer (forthcoming: "The Duchess" starring Keira Knightly) and screenwriter Carolyn Marks Blackwood had never shown her photographs to anyone. Once she did, a whirlwind ensued. Since then, her work has been shown at Paul Rodger's 9W Gallery in Manhattan in a show, "

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Berkshire Museum's New Market

The Berkshire Museum Shop has come out of hiding. It has moved from the bowels of the venerable Berkshire Museum and into a prime corner storefront at 31 South Street in Pittsfield. Designed and fabricated by local artists led by Mitch and Seth Nash of Blue Q and Joe Wheaton.

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