While photographer Michael Kalish was taking photographs of the circus Friday evening, the Zoppe Family Circus crew invited him to travel with them. He is still pondering the invitation.
The building is stridently modern. The art and the architecture of the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, on Hawthorne Street in Lenox, celebrate the owners and what they treasured.
This is an enormously enjoyable show ... a once-in-a-generation opportunity that no one with any interest whatsoever in the visual arts, or in how the natural world is understood, should miss.
Alecson teaches and lectures on death, dying, bereavement, and the ethics of healthcare, assisting professionals in understanding their patients' experiences.
One of the real strengths of River Crossings is its broad range. There are almost thirty artists represented here, and many of them are every bit as intriguing as Sherman, Nozkowski and LeDray.
It is entirely possible that Harold Baumbach’s work will finally receive the attention it deserves not merely because of his son Jonathan's efforts but because his grandson, Noah, has won precisely the sort of fame that he himself disdained.
If you have not visited Jack Shainman's gallery, The School in Kinderhook, New York, you should. A genuine pleasure awaits you. The School has, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful gallery spaces anywhere in the country. The School, like all of Shainman’s projects, has a specific focus: “To exhibit, represent and champion artists from around the world, in particular artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America.”
We should congratulate curator Jay A. Clarke and her team for putting together this eye-opening exhibition of their work, and in particular for drawing attention to Sybil Andrews (1898-1992), a largely forgotten artist of the first rank.
News of the Scholastic awards for art came, however, at the moment Berkshire Hills Regional School District proposed trimming its budget by, among other things, reducing one art teacher at the high school, devastating the art community at the school, and diminishing the program’s offerings.
"The show investigates and documents the apparent American need, or drive, for war, from the day the first settler arrives from elsewhere."
-- Writer Phil Johnson
A barn-raising brunch at Gedney Farm for the Great Barrington Fairgrounds; 'About Face' in S. Lee; a Rogue Angel Theatre promenade, led by Pooja Prema.
