(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Perennial MASS MoCA favorite and preeminent silent film accompanist Alloy Orchestra will perform a live score to the Douglas Fairbanks classic, The Black Pirate, on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 8:30pm, at the museum’s brick-lined cinema courtyard, on the largest outdoor movie screen in New England. The Black Pirate screening will…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A guided walking tour of public art with a nautical theme inspired by Herman Melville’s great American novel, Moby-Dick, which was written here in Pittsfield, will take place on Saturday, August 25, 2012, beginning at 1p.m. Led by artist and educator Craig Langlois, the 90-minute guided walk – which sets off from…
(HUDSON, N.Y., August 13, 2012) – Performance artist Marina Abramovic gave her first public presentation on Sunday at the site of her proposed eponymous institute, to be located in the Community Tennis building, originally built as a movie theater. According to the artist, the so-called Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art will…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Claiming more than 3,000 visitors in its inaugural run last month, the organizers of 10X10 On North – a winter contemporary arts festival in downtown Pittsfield – have scheduled a second run for February 2013. According to organizers, a total of 44 performances took place February 16-26, featuring more than 120 new…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season at Berkshire Museum will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley: Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, and a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone. The Shanley plays will be performed in repertory in the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) The Harrison Gallery will present a show of two gallery favorites: realist painter Nick Patten and bronze sculptor Susan Read Cronin. The artists will attend the opening reception on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 5 until 7 pm. Nick Patten paints the interiors of rooms in old houses with direct and reflected light…
BOB DYLAN CELEBRATION with AUTHOR/SINGER SETH ROGOVOY and PHOTOGRAPHER KEN REGAN (NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – After seventeen years as a corporate fundraiser, Peter Hussey traded his gray flannel suit for an easel and became a full time watercolor artist. He succeeded in his new craft by painting the things he knew and liked best – the architectural details of old New England buildings. As a frustrated architect,…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker, will present a free lecture entitled The Critic as Artist in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, September 11 at 3 pm. In this special lecture, Clark Prize winner Peter Schjeldahl will discuss whether dedicated art…
JACOB’S PILLOW Mark Morris Dance Group Ted Shawn Theatre August 24-28, 2011 Review by Anna Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – Mark Morris celebrates his 30th year as Artistic Director of Mark Morris Dance Group this year, an incredible achievement in the world of modern dance. The prolific Morris is the recipient of numerous awards and has…
