(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…
JACOB’s PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL KIDD PIVOT Doris Duke Theatre July 7, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – In a pre-performance talk, Jacob’s Pillow Scholar-in-Residence Philip Szporer quoted Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM (Kidd Pivot) artistic director Crystal Pite as saying that she “need[s] to think of [her] role in this creation as disturber,” and…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) –Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting, The Problem We All Live With, part of the Norman “The Problem We All Live With,” Norman Rockwell, 1963. Oil on canvas, 36” x 58”. Illustration for “Look,” January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©NRELC, Niles, IL. Rockwell Museum’s permanent collection, has been loaned to the White…
JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL Jane Comfort and Company June 29-July 3, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 30, 2011) — “It’s always a surprise with Jane,” said Ella Baff, executive director of Jacob’s Pillow, as she welcomed audiences to Jane Comfort and Company’s performance in the Doris Duke Theatre on Thursday night. On…
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Ted Shawn Theatre June 23, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 23, 2011) – The curtain rose on the U.S. premiere of Joelle Bouvier’s Romeo and Juliet last night in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow to reveal a single figure. A…
In addition to numerous play openings at the region’s theaters (which we will be reporting on in coming days and weeks), this weekend features a diverse array of cultural events, including Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.; the Boston Early Music Festival at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass.; a…
Text and photos by Seth Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass., June 19, 2011) – The Jacob’s Pillow season opening gala is always a high point of the season, both for the programming, which serves as a kind of sampler for the work that goes on at the Pillow, including the educational component as well as a sprinkling…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nearly seven months after two of the Berkshire’s top producing and performing theaters said that they intended to join forces, artistic director and chief executive officer Kate Maguire announced that both have merged into one organization: Colonial Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Festival Merger Corporation. “The new name, of course, is an interim ‘mouthful,’” said…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), has been named interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place. Current director Lisa Corrin steps down from her position on June 30. Deputy director John Stomberg…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Artist and designer Karen Beckwith explains the challenges and triumphs she faced in turning a room in a Gilded Age mansion into “a flexible space for meditation, yoga, journaling and drawing, reading, napping, and occasionally hiding…” Ventfort Hall, the Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, has been transformed room by room by…
