NEW MASS MoCA INSTALLATION REIMAGINES WHISTLER’S ‘PEACOCK ROOM’
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In his first major museum exhibition on the East Coast, painter Darren Waterston‘s installation Filthy Lucre – the centerpiece of his exhibition Uncertain Beauty – reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The exhibition, for which the artist has been in residency at MASS MoCA since July 2013, opens on Saturday, March 8, 2014, with an opening reception to celebrate Waterston and Uncertain Beauty on Saturday, March 29, 2014, from 5 to 7pm.
AFROPOP LEGEND OLIVER ‘TUKU’ MTUKUDZI to PERFORM at CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – One of Afropop’s living legends, Oliver Mtukudzi, bring his fusion of traditional Zimbabwean music and African funk along with his band, the Black Spirits, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 9pm. Mtukudzi is so renowned in his native land and throughout Southern Africa that his nickname, “Tuku,” has been applied to an entire genre of music.
COWBOY JUNKIES RETURN to MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Canadian indie-rock group Cowboy Junkies return to the Mahaiwe with a new batch of their patented alternative country/blues/folk rock songs on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm. With its quiet, Velvet Underground-influenced drone-rock combined with a rootsy, country-folk approach, the Cowboy Junkies were one of the original bands to give birth to the 1990s genre that became known as “No Depression” or “alt-country.”
SOUL COUGHING’S MIKE DOUGHTY to BRING “QUESTION JAR SHOW” to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Mike Doughty brings his world-renowned, award-winning “Question Jar Show” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 8, at 9pm. The former Soul Coughing frontman will pick audience questions and requests out of a jar, and his loyal, fervent audience is wickedly good at coming up with extremely weird things to ask.
PERFORMANCE ARTIST JEANINE DURNING BRINGS ‘INGING’ to WILLIAMS COLLEGE
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Movement artist Jeanine Durning brings her solo performance experiment, inging, to the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance’s Directing Studio at Williams College on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, and Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 8pm both nights. The program is being presented as part of the ’62 Center’s Off-CenterSeries, whose stated mission is “to challenge audiences with performing arts in unconventional frames.” Durning’s inging is part spoken-word performance, part reverie, part dance, and part oral biography – “a choreography of the mind.”
STEPHEN KELLOGG BAND BRINGS ORIGINAL FOLK-ROCK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-rock singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, March 6, at 8pm, for the final swing of his “All Love, Future’s Bright” tour with the Stephen Kellogg Band, celebrating the release of his ninth studio album, “Blunderstone Rookery.”
TV COMIC LONI LOVE HEADS to COLONIAL
(Pittsfield, Mass.) – Nationally acclaimed comedienne Loni Love brings her stand-up tour to the Colonial Theatre on March 7, 2014, at 8pm. Love is co-host of the new daytime talk show “The Real,” a guest DJ for “The Ellen Show,” a regular panelist on E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” co-host of “CafeMocha Radio Show,” and author of the new book “Love Him or Leave Him.”