(HILLSDALE, N.Y.) – On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Architecture for Art Gallery opens a show of works by artists Martha Bone of New York City and Bart Gulley of Chatham, N.Y. Opening reception for the artists is Saturday from 6 to 8 pm. The show will run through December 11. Martha Bone’s sculptures and installations…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – “A Wish for 11-11-11,” a 30-second video released today on Youtube, encourages viewers to donate $11 (or greater amounts in multiples of 1, e.g., $111 or $1,111) in honor of Charley Seckler’s birthday this coming Friday to help Charley’s Fund finish what it started eight years ago when Charley was diagnosed at…
(HANCOCK, Mass.) – Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort received top honors from the readers of SKI Magazine this October. Readers voted Jiminy Peak in the Top 10 among Eastern resorts in 8 different categories. The rankings were: • #2 in Service • #5 in Family Programs • #5 On Mountain Food • #5 Lodging • #7…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The BIFF’s REEL Friends Film Society presents a special screening of Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Anonymous, which will include a special Q&A and conversation with the movie’s screenwriter, John Orloff, who lives in nearby Columbia County, N.Y., immediately following the film on Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at the…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Fresh American, LLC, the newly formed umbrella corporation for the Pittsfield-based Pine Cone Hill, Dash & Albert Rug Company, and Annie Selke Home, has named Bob White chief operating officer and president. White comes to Fresh American with more than twenty years’ experience in the home-furnishings industry, including associations with Marimekko, Clarence House,…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey, a traveling exhibition created by the Jewish Museum in New York City on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum from November 12, 2011 through February 5, 2012, reveals the little-known story of how the popular children’s book character was both…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass., November 3, 2011) – Norman Rockwell Museum director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt is one of 100 executive leaders in the cultural sector across the nation chosen to participate in National Arts Strategies‘ highly competitive Chief Executive Program. Over the course of the next two years, Ms. Norton Moffatt will engage in discussions with colleagues…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Austin-by-way-of-Nashville progressive bluegrass outfit the Greencards, Grammy Award nominees noted for touring with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, perform at Club Helsinki on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 9 pm. The evening before, Helsinki presents Twenty Thousand Roads, a tribute to Americana pioneer Gram Parsons and celebration of what would be his…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi pay tribute to Dave Tarras, the immigrant-era clarinetist who came to be known as “the King of Klezmer,” in a concert at the Yiddish Book Center on Sunday, November 6, 2011, at 2 p.m. Hailed as “the Jewish Benny Goodman,” Tarras is considered the most influential klezmer…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Noted U.S. and international scholars will gather at The Clark on November 4 and 5 for the 2011 Clark Conference, In the Wake of the Global Turn: Propositions for an “Exploded” Art History without Borders. This scholarly conference draws together scholars to investigate what a shift towards a broader geographical expanse in…
