(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Norman Rockwell Museum has named illustrator David Macaulay as 2011-2012 Artist Laureate. An award-winning author and artist whose work has helped readers better understand the workings of everything from simple gadgets to monumental structures, Macaulay employs pictures and words to reveal the secret lives of buildings, the wonders of the human body,…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – A public reception for Flight, a new exhibition of photographs capturing birds in flight over the Atlantic Ocean by Cassandra Sohn, takes place on Saturday, Sept 10, from 4 to 7, at the Sohn Fine Art Gallery, where the work will remain on view through October 10, 2011. There will be a…
(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…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts Gallery presents “Hands, Hearts, and the Sacred,” an exhibition of Judaic art by Barbara Barron and Wendy A. Rabinowitz, from August 27 to October 8, 2011. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 27, from 3 to 5, with Jewish and Yiddish music and…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – “Inner Objects,” an exhibition of works by Michael Zelehoski, opens on Friday, August 19, at Sanford Smith Fine Art and runs through October 13, 2011. A reception for the artist takes place on Saturday, August 20, from 4 to 7. Zelehoski’s artwork involves the literal collapse of three-dimensional objects and structures…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Acclaimed contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson, a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires whose work is often staged on location in towns around the region and on stage sets at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., will have his work discussed at two events this Friday, August 19, 2011,: at the Berkshire Museum…
(THE BERKSHIRES, Mass.) – ArtBerkshires presents the second of two curated weekends of arts-related events in the region from Thursday, August 18 through Sunday, August 21, 2011. Organized by ArtBerkshires cofounders Leslie Ferrin and Sienna Patti, the weekend will feature a variety of programs, exhibitions, and exclusive events at venues linking contemporary art, sculpture and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Harrison Gallery will present Luminous Landscapes, an exhibition of landscape paintings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, a master in the art of luminous painting, from August 6 through August 31. The artist will be attending the show’s opening reception on Saturday, August 6, from 5 to 7 pm. In the paintings of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams,…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) — The early Industrial Revolution dances with modern technology in the Steampunk movement, the topic of an illustrated lecture and discussion at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Thursday, August 4, starting at 5:30 p.m. Steampunk Night features Bruce Rosenbaum of ModVic Steampuffin and Ellen Hagney, executive director of the Charles River Museum of…
