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Ground/work 2025
Outdoor Sculpture at Clark Art Intitute
By: - Jan 16th, 2025Curated by independent art historian Glenn Adamson, Ground/work 2025 features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists, Akiyama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Aboubakar Fofana, Hugh Hayden, Milena Naef, and Javier Senosiain that respond to the Clark’s unique setting while expressing ideas core to each artist’s individual practice.
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Komische Oper, Berlin
Robinson Crusoe
By: - Jan 15th, 2025The concert version of the light opera by Jacques Offenbach of the Komische Oper, Berlin left wishes open for a full fledged opera performance. The stage setting, at their temporary house located at the Schiller Theater in the Bismarckstrasse in Berlin, seemed at bit crowded. Nevertheless.....
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North Adams Artist Kelsey Shultis Showing in London
Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025
By: - Jan 14th, 2025North Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
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The Vibration of Creation
Our Bodies and Spiritual Practices
By: - Jan 13th, 2025At the most fundamental level, everything in the universe is made up of energy vibrating at different frequencies. From the smallest subatomic particles to the largest celestial bodies, everything is in a constant state of motion, creating a unique vibrational signature. This includes our physical bodies, thoughts, emotions, and even the seemingly empty space around us.
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Igor Levit Performs at Carnegie Hall
Bach Brahms and Beethoven
By: - Jan 13th, 2025Igor Levit, a deeply thoughtful musician, gave voice to Bach, Brahms and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall. Each of these composers was represented by a seemingly uncharacteristic work that revealed unfamiliar approaches.
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Marjorie Kaye's Indivisible Bursts
Boston's Galatea Gallery
By: - Jan 11th, 2025In Marjorie Kaye’s recent body of work, she has been isolating shapes to examine and delve further into their nature. She is finding limitless potential in particular intuitive algorithms, with an infinite number of patterns that can be determined from the visual arrangement of mathematical suggestions.
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Clark Art Institute Summer 2025
Exhibitions and Programming
By: - Jan 09th, 2025“Summer 2025 promises to be a dynamic season with an exciting line-up of exhibitions that will bring our galleries and our grounds to life,” said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. “Outdoors, we are looking forward to bringing the second presentation of our Ground/work exhibition to our campus and to introducing our visitors to six remarkable contemporary artists. Indoors, we are offering a rich program that will offer a wide array of exhibitions featuring many artists whose works will be shown here for the first time.”
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10X10 New Play Festival
Returns to Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jan 09th, 2025The 10X10 New Play Festival has become a cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Winter cultural scene, attracting both seasoned theatre lovers and first-time attendees. Tickets are expected to sell quickly, so early booking is encouraged.
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Percival Everett's James and Fury
Winner of the National Book Award 2024
By: - Jan 07th, 2025Percival Everett’s James won the National Book Award in 2024. It is a wonderful read, often humorous in its darkest corners. A deep examination of the origins of fury, in its last chapters we come to understand the results of escalating anger.
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Letter from Kathy Porter
On the Move
By: - Jan 06th, 2025One of the elements of understanding the artist Katherine Porter was tracking her many moves and motivations. It’s the kind of personal detail that is left out of the writing of critics and most art historians.
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Artist Activist Benny Andrews
From Georgia Sharecropper's Son To NEA Administrator
By: - Jan 05th, 2025Benny Andrews was one of ten children of Georgia sharecroppers. After serving in the Air Force he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill. He showed regularly in Provincetown where we met. He formed a group to protest the racist Harlem on My Mind at the Met. The group helped initiate but subsequently boycotted an exhibition of black artists at the Whitney Museum. Collage was an element in his figurative expressionist works.
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Prototype Festival to Begin New Year
New York's Most Adventuresome Program Music
By: - Dec 28th, 2024The Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison starts the avant-garde music world off from January 9 to 19. One work has been around the city in various forms for a while. Black Lodge dives into William Burroughs’ life. Queer, the film starring Daniel Craig, has brought Burroughs mainstream attention. The film with music by David T. Little, wrestles with movies as canned opera.
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Former Ladies of The Supremes
A Nostalgic Concert at Marin Jazz
By: - Dec 21st, 2024Since 1986, this group has revived the music of the most successful girl group of all time. Memorable songs written by the great team of Holland, Dozier, and Holland and sung by this charming group take us back to 1964 and the years following.
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Vatermal at Maxim Gorki Theater
Berlin Premiere Production
By: - Dec 26th, 2024It turned out to be an interesting opening on December 21, 2024 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany. The new play Vatermal, (permanent skin discoloration attributed to his father) transformed from the first novel by Necati Öziris into a play by Hakan Savas Mican, is a sad saga of a young man not getting a chance to live a life of his own.
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She Loves Me at Long Wharf
Gets a Lot Right and Wrong
By: - Dec 22nd, 2024Long Wharf’s production of She Loves Me (running through Monday, December 30) gets a lot right; unfortunately, its missteps are a significant detraction from the overall success of the show.
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Katherine Porter Drawing
Lost and Found
By: - Dec 20th, 2024In 2023, the last year of her life, and 100th anniversary of surrealism, Katherine Porter sent me a small automatic drawing and a letter. It got lost in the studio's detritus. Recently recovered it offers poignant glimpses into the endgame of her life and work.
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A Thousand Ships
Oakland Theater Project World Premiere
By: - Dec 20th, 2024Distinguished playwright Marcus Gardley creates an homage to the Black community in Oakland that he grew up in, and particularly to strong women and their contributions. Adeline and Laney are transplants from the South, and their beauty salon is an institution for decades before the women face economic and personal challenges.
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Master Class Workshops and Back to the Woodshed
January at Eclipse Mill in North Adams
By: - Dec 18th, 2024In January the Eclipse Mill in North Adams offers Master Class Workshops with Jim Peters and Arnela Mahmutovi?. Also 12 artists may apply to participate in Back to to the Woodshed. .
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Luna Stage Presents Mrs. Stern
Exploring a Critical Moment for Hannah Arendt
By: - Dec 18th, 2024Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, a new play by Jenny Lyn Bader, takes place in a prison cell in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Mrs. Stern is better known today as Hannah Arendt, her birth name.
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Umberto Romano (1906 - 1981) and the New Deal
Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 16th, 2024The striking work of Cape Ann modernist, Umberto Romano, is on view at the annex of the Cape Ann Museum. The artist, curator, and historian, Susan Erony, delivered a lecture on the murals that the artist created during the Depression years of the 1930s. Erony is currently working on a history of the art of Cape Ann.
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Legendary Diacono Gallery Resurfaces
Man in Space Variations on a Bauhaus Theme
By: - Dec 13th, 2024Now in his 90s, the Italian born Mario Diacono is a revered legend of the Boston art world. He was known for exhibiting single works by renowned artists. These were accompanied by theoretical essays written in Italian and then translated. Few of the works entered Boston collections but found their way to Europe. He has emerged from retirement. To visit the gallery one must 1.open the gold box. 2.click on Faros Directory 3. Enter the name Mario Diacono Gallery 4. Next, click on call 4. Proceed to open the door. 5. Prepare to be amazed.
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Ellen O’Donnell Rankin in 1984
Former Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Dec 12th, 2024In the summer of 1984 I started research in Provincetown. Ellen O'Donnell (Rankin) got me started by setting up contacts for interviews. Our interview provides a window into a time when Provincetown was still affordable for artists. In my archive I have a receipt for an inn at $35 a night. Things have changed since then and not for the better. Provincetown is no longer a viable option for young artists
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Some Like it Hot
Equity Touring Production in Florida
By: - Dec 06th, 2024An equity national touring production of the stage musical adaptation of the movie "Some Like it Hot" is touring the country. The tour includes several stops in Florida. It's hard to make out the words that the performers are saying and singing.
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Film at Lincoln Center Presents Siodmak
Great Filmmaker
By: - Dec 10th, 2024Film at Lincoln Center presents a Robert Siodmak retrospective from December 11 to December 19. Siodmak, according to his 98-year-old brother (with whom he worked),spent his entire life in film studios and on location. Robert made films in many different genres. Yet he is best known, and not well-enough known, for his contributions to the film noir form.
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Gloucester Modernist Umberto Romano
At Annex of Cape Ann Museum
By: - Dec 04th, 2024The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space.
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