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Artscape Hosts Walking Tours of Public Art in Downtown Pittsfield

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(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Artscape, a public outdoor art exhibition, resumes its monthly tours of public art in downtown Pittsfield on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. Artist and educator Craig Langlois narrates the 90-minute tours, which conclude on Oct. 8. Free of charge and made possible by a grant from the Pittsfield Cultural Council, the Artscape…

At Shakespeare & Company, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Black and White

Susannah Millonzi is Juliet and David Gelles is Romeo in Shakespeare & Company's new production of 'Romeo and Juliet' (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest and most influential love stories of all time, and perhaps William Shakespeare’s most popular play, is being given an updated, innovative treatment in a new production directed by Daniela Varon at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre now through September 3. Generations never tire of the…

New Sol Schwartz Exhibition Celebrates Performing Arts in the Berkshires

Illustration of Yo-Yo Ma by Sol Schwartz. ©Sol Schwartz. All rights reserved.

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) –There couldn’t be a more fitting summertime exhibition than “Sol Schwartz: Drawing in the Dark,” featuring the well-known artist’s vibrant, spontaneous drawings, that have captured the beauty and excitement of music, theater and dance at such performing arts centers as Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and Barrington Stage Company,…

The Clark’s French Masterworks Visit Their Homeland

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919), Girl with a Fan, c. 1879. Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm. © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, 1955.595

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opens the exhibition La Collection Clark à Giverny, de Manet à Renoir at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny, France, as part of the international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings. Open…

Mezze Bistro + Bar Features Berkshire Artworks

Sean Riley, "Tumbling Blocks," 2009, paper collage, 54" x 44"

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass). – Mezze Bistro + Bar will host an art opening on Monday, July 11, featuring selected works from Berkshire-based artists Melissa Matsuki Lillie and Sean Riley, from 5 to 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public, with light snacks and a cash bar. The current Mezze Bistro exhibit is…

Gallerist Opens Second Gallery in Lenox

Beth Lipman, Still Life with Eggs, 2010, glass/mixed media, 15 x 36 x 21 in.

(LENOX, Mass.) – Sienna Patti, founder and director of Sienna Gallery, will open SPQ Projects, a second gallery space that will feature contemporary visual art from a variety of internationally-acclaimed artists as well as some of the field’s most cutting-edge new figures, on Friday, July 1. The new gallery will be located at 53 Church…

Blockbuster Art Show Commemorates Gallery’s First Decade

Paul's Rocket at First Light #141

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Harrison Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary starting Saturday, July 2, with a retrospective exhibition featuring artists whose work has been shown in the gallery over the past ten years, including such prominent names as Stephen Hannock, John MacDonald, Hale Johnson, Nick Patten, Wayne Thiebaud and Susie Cronin. All four rooms of the…

Karin Stack’s ‘The Grass is Green’ at MCLA Gallery 51

Karin Stack's "Pool Astroturf"

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – “The Grass is Green,” a solo exhibition by Williamstown, Mass., artist Karin Stack, opens Thursday, June 23, 2011, at MCLA Gallery 51. The exhibition, which investigates the idealized, unnatural, fake landscape, remains on view through Sunday, July 24. An opening reception, free and open to the public, takes place on Thursday,…

The Clark’s Major Summer Exhibition Featuring Pissarro Opens

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pissarro’s People, the first major exhibition to focus on the Camille Pissarro’s personal ties and social ideas and the major show at The Clark this summer, opens this weekend. Also opening this weekend at The Clark are El Anatsui, featuring works by one of Africa’s greatest living sculptors, and Spaces: Photographs by…