A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Once again indie-rock group Wilco headlines the Solid Sound Festival, which takes place at MASS MoCA on Friday, June 26, to Sunday, June 28, 2015. Among the two-dozen-plus other acts that Wilco has chosen to perform are folk-rock singer-songwriter Richard Thompson, Afrobeat stars King Sunny Ade & his African Beats, downtown-rockers…
CHOREOGRAPHER LUCINDA CHILDS REVISITS ‘AVAILABLE LIGHT’ at MASS MoCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Lucinda Childs, one of the most celebrated choreographers of the modern era, revives Available Light, her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, with three intimate, work-in-progress showings in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Friday, March…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman will present WORDLESS!, an “intellectual vaudeville show” created in collaboration with composer Phillip Johnston, at the ’62 Center at Williams College on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 7:30pm. WORDLESS! is a stage-show hybrid incorporating slides, a talk, and a musical performance. The performance looks at the history…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – BerkshireNow, a new gallery at Berkshire Museum devoted to showcasing the work of artists living in the Berkshires, will be open free to the public during Pittsfield’s First Friday Artswalk on Friday, March 6, 2015. The inaugural BerkshireNow exhibition, curated by Maria Mingalone, features Pittsfield-based artists Michael McKay, Monika Pizzichemi, and Marcel…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Lucinda Childs, one of the most celebrated choreographers of the modern era, revives Available Light, her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, with three intimate, work-in-progress showings in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 8 pm,…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale will perform Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. There will be…
STORYBOARD P BRINGS BROOKLYN ‘STREET DANCE’ to MASS MoCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Storyboard P and his troupe, the Warriorz, bring their stylized street dance to Club B-10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, February 28, at 8pm. Storyboard P has been called “the Basquiat of street dance,” and “a man whose dancing seems to belong…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Uncanny Valley, a show of innovative works on paper and paintings by New England-based artist Shona Macdonald, opens at Independent Art Projects on Saturday, February 28, 2015, with a reception from 3 to 5pm. The exhibition, presented by CYNTHIA-REEVES, runs through March 29. Uncanny Valley is a new series developed from…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection, featuring works created by artists associated with London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art in the 1930s and 1940s that were inspired by such prewar movements as Futurism and Cubism and used innovative techniques, goes on view at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – George Thorogood & The Destroyers bring their singular style of boogie-blues to the Colonial Theatre on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at 7:30pm. Legendary Boston-based soul-rock shouter Barrence Whitfield opens the show. George Thorogood and his longtime band, the Destroyers boast a catalog of iconic hits, including “Bad To The Bone,” “One Bourbon,…
