Tag Archive for Berkshire Museum

Film Documents European Exiles in 1930s Hollywood

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — The European diaspora’s influence on Hollywood culture in the 1930s and ‘40s is the focus of Peter Rosen’s documentary film Shadows in Paradise, to be shown at Berkshire Museum on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at 2 p.m. Filmmaker Rosen will introduce his 2009 film and answer questions following the screening, which is…

Little Cinema Tells a Big Story

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Berkshire Museum’s Little Cinema will screen The Story of Film: An Odyssey, every Thursday at 7 p.m., beginning October 18, 2012, and running through December 13 (there will be no showing on November 22 in observance of Thanksgiving). The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey…

Susan Dworkin’s ‘The Old Mezzo’ Premieres at Berkshire Museum by WAM

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Old Mezzo by Berkshire-based playwright Susan Dworkin enjoys its world premiere beginning this week at Berkshire Museum in a production by WAM Theatre that runs from Friday, October 12, 2012, through Sunday, October 28, 2012, and which features professional actors from Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, the…

Documentary Examines Hollywood’s Transition from Film to Digital

Review by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – While it may be lost on the average or casual moviegoer, there has been a revolution in the film industry over the last decade or two in terms of how movies are made, shown, and distributed. Just as in other art forms and modes of business and communication,…

Museum Show Highlights Creative Economy Partnership Between Artist and Design Firm

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) –  The results of a collaboration between a Berkshires-based artist and design firm are displayed at Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield, Mass., a living example of how the creative economy has replaced the manufacturing economy in this once-thriving industrial city. In 2010, Tom Patti, a Berkshires-based artist renowned worldwide for his innovative work in…

Berkshire Museum to Install Tom Patti Artwork

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Tom Patti, the Pittsfield-based artist internationally renowned for his innovative work in glass, has been commissioned by Berkshire Museum to create original works for the museum’s entry vestibule and lobby area. The site-specific installations are the first major commissions by Patti, one of the most influential and inventive artists working with glass,…

Berkshire Museum Hires Nina Garlington as Development Director

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nina Garlington, most recently director of resource development for Berkhsire United Way, has been named director of development of Berkshire Museum, beginning June 4, 2012. Laurie Werner, who has served the museum as director of development since August 2010, has been appointed director of campaign and major gifts for the museum. Before…