(Becket, Mass.) – Two highly respected contemporary artists and choreographers, Jodi Melnick and David Neumann, will dance together in a unique collaboration choreographed expressly for their residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, as their respective company’s share the stage in the Doris Duke Theatre on August 10-14. In her Pillow debut performance, two-time…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pop-rock group Train performs at Tanglewood on Monday, August 8, at 7 p.m. The multiple Grammy Award-winning band, known for hit power ballads such as “Drops of Jupiter” and “Hey, Soul Sister,” has been riding a comeback wave since the 2009 release of Save Me, San Francisco, released after a four-year hiatus…
Written by Seth Rogovoy Photography by Stan Grossfeld/Courtesy the Boston Globe Vintage photos by Henry Diltz, Courtesy James Taylor It’s a gorgeous, early June morning, and James Taylor has just returned from his daily morning row on a nearby lake. Still wearing his wader boots, an old pair of jeans, a plaid, short-sleeve…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Actors Theatre, a new theater company founded by local actors and directors, bows with Four Dogs and a Bone, John Patrick Shanley’s show business comedy. The play follows a screenwriter, a producer, and two manipulative actresses as they simultaneously strive to take control of a floundering Hollywood film. Inflated egos, brazen…
(BECKET, Mass.) – Performer, choreographer, and media artist Jonah Bokaer will combine dance, architecture, and visual art in an innovative program of two U.S. premieres in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow on August 3-7. Bokaer and his dancers will perform the site-specific RECESS, designed by acclaimed visual artist Daniel Arsham, and Why Patterns,…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Harrison Gallery will present Luminous Landscapes, an exhibition of landscape paintings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, a master in the art of luminous painting, from August 6 through August 31. The artist will be attending the show’s opening reception on Saturday, August 6, from 5 to 7 pm. In the paintings of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams,…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Tanglewood Music Center’s 2011 Festival of Contemporary Music, August 3-7, under the direction of Pulitzer Prize-winning Charles Wuorinen, will feature three world premieres, by Wuorinen, John Zorn, and Fred Ho — all three commissions by the Tanglewood Music Center. The 2011 programs will represent a mix of early-, mid-, and late-career…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Intellectual property lawyer Paul Rapp will discuss fair use, copyrights and trademarks in the First Thursdays Discussions series at Historic Beaver Mill on Thursday, August 4, at 6 p.m. Of particular interest to artists, the talk and discussion are free, and light refreshments will be served. Rapp is an intellectual property…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) — The early Industrial Revolution dances with modern technology in the Steampunk movement, the topic of an illustrated lecture and discussion at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Thursday, August 4, starting at 5:30 p.m. Steampunk Night features Bruce Rosenbaum of ModVic Steampuffin and Ellen Hagney, executive director of the Charles River Museum of…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Art of the Print, a new exhibition at the White Gallery in Great Barrington, opens with an artist reception on August 6, 2011, from 5 to 7 p.m., and runs now through September 24. The show features new work artists Nancy McTague-Stock, Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero, Pavel Roucka, Frances B. Ashforth, Deborah Weiss…
