The Berkshires has long been home to
internationally recognized cultural contributors to the arts.
Residents have included Daniel Chester French, sculptor of
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, and American illustrator,
Norman Rockwell. Many well known artists now make their homes
in the Berkshires and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art, located in North Adams, is one of the worlds largest
contemporary art museums and a major player in the international
art scene . Located within 3 hours of Boston and New York
City, this area attracts summer residents, vacationers and
weekenders by the millions throughout the year.
Downtown North Adams will again host Downstreet Art. 34 visual arts destinations include Gallery Haiti, showing the work of contemporary Haitian-American artists. DownstreetArt.org
Set in the Historic Windsor Mill in North Adams, Kolok Gallery represents and exhibits artwork by emerging and mid-career, nationally and internationally-based artists.
Melissa Lillie's paintings reference natural forms using a personal visual language of vibrant colors and complex layers to reflect on the macroscopic and microscopic world.
Indoor waterfall created in gallery at MoCA North Adams Transcript Middlebrook will reveal his waterfall, and other work, at Mass MoCA on Sunday, May 26. The waterfall's conception extended from a large mobile Middlebrook did in Chicago, some of the parts of which he had salvaged from debris there and is reusing in ...
The art of work North Adams Transcript His show at Mass MoCA opens Sunday, May 26. Montgomery's show gathers work from very different bodies of work and puts them together in a room to show the process of working. One, collage images, are images built up from a canvas that comes out to ...
Aaron Neville shares his doo-wop story North Adams Transcript Coming to Mass MoCA on Saturday as part of his current national tour, Neville said the title of his new CD is personal -- he approaches each concert eager to share something of his own story through the love of music that defined his childhood. "This ...
Kate Abbott: Summer begins to arrive in the Berkshires North Adams Transcript I think of all the people who come to us here every summer -- contemporary musicians from Khazakstan playing in the Mass MoCA mill spaces and by the lake, through hikers on the Appalachian Trail, young actors performing for crowds at the farmers ...
Art and fandom at Mass MoCA North Adams Transcript NORTH ADAMS -- "Love To Love You," which opens at Mass MoCA on Sunday, May 26, gathers art work that takes fan culture as a cue to examine not only the specifics of how we express affection for people far removed from us, but also what that means ...
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