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.
Artists Claw Their Way to the BottomCulture 2paragraphs.com Selected by Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art curator Denise Markonish (who also curated the recent MASS MoCA exhibition “Oh, Canada,”) the “Stockpile” artists are: Dean Baldwin, Brendan Fernandes, Diane Landry, Divya Mehra, Luanne ...
Berkshires inns offer high quality, higher costs Boston Globe They gave the Red Lion to their daughter Nancy, who in 2001 opened The Por-ches Inn at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams. Blantyre went to daughter Ann, who restored it to its former glory. When I made our ...
Daniel Barrow's installation The Coast Halifax This wasn't how we imagined starting our trip from Halifax to Massachusetts to catch MASS MoCA's largest exhibition of contemporary art, Oh, Canada (May 26-April 8). We haven't even left Halifax and group divisions are starting to rear their heads.
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 ...
'Ra.One,' most expensive Bollywood film to date debuts in Pittsfield North Adams Transcript One" took place at MASS MoCA. The crew would speak a mixture of English and Hindi. Eighteen companies across the globe, including Kleiser's Synthespian Studios in Williamstown, worked on "Ra.One." Kleiser conducted meetings between them all right ...
