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Sections by Julia Rooney
Real Eyes Gallery in Adams. Mass.
By: - Jun 07th, 2021As a title, Sections riffs off the organizational structure of a newspaper—a structure which is palpably felt in print editions where each section is folded separately and sandwiched into the others. This concept plays out spatially across the gallery, as the walls, floor and ceiling each become uniquely activated by the work installed on them.
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Oslo on HBO a Riveting Drama
Secret Israeli and Palestinian Negotiations
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Savvy heavyweight Hollywood movers and shakers like Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger, producer Mark Taylor, and director Bartlett Sher lend their considerable talents and heft into a timely remake of the 2017 Tony-winning stage production “Oslo”. The Oslo movie version of 2021 is also written by J.T. Rogers from his eponymous stage play, along with new inputs as a way of sharpening and updating the dialogue by Rogers and others.
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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
Dormeshia Is This Year's Winner
By: - Jun 08th, 2021The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award was created in 2007 by an anonymous donor whose commitment to an ongoing annual gift to Jacob’s Pillow of $50,000 is generous and far-reaching. The Award, presented each year to an artist of exceptional vision and achievement, carries a cash prize of $25,000 which the artist can use in any way they wish. Dormeshia is this year's winner.
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MFA Celebrates Juneteenth
Free Admission and Programming on June 19
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865, when news of the Civil War’s end reached Galveston, Texas—nearly two and a half years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The MFA has hosted a community celebration marking the holiday since 2013.
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Wilco's Jeff Tweedy at MASS MoCA
Benefit Concert July 17
By: - Jun 09th, 2021Wilco's Jeff Tweedy takes the stage, joined by special guest and bandmate, Nels Cline, for a concert benefiting MASS MoCA’s Joe Thompson “Yes” Fund. All proceeds directly support the museum’s mission – instilled by our founding director Joe Thompson — to champion artists and art-making in all forms.
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Tim Rodgers to Head NY's Museum of Art and Design
Move from Phoenix Art Museum
By: - Jun 10th, 2021The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has appointed Timothy R. Rodgers, PhD, to serve as the Museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. Rodgers is currently the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum and previously served as director of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami. Prior to the Wolfsonian, Rodgers concurrently served as director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Vice President of the Scottsdale Cultural Council. He will assume his new position on September 15, 2021.
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Tanglewood and Pops for July Fourth
Moved from Traditional Hatch Shell
By: - Jun 11th, 2021This 2021 Boston Pops July 4th Spectacular will be a televised, live-streamed concert to take place under the direction of Keith Lockhart from the stage of Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, Sunday, July 4, 8-11 p.m., broadcast live on Bloomberg TV and Radio, as well as locally on WHDH-TV Channel 7.
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Summer Theatre in Connecticut
Adapting to Change
By: - Jun 13th, 2021How theater is presented this summer continues to expand. TheaterWorks in Hartford, West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park and Ridgefield’s Thrown Stone Theater are exploring what are called “site-specific” productions – where the production’s content has a relationship to the site where it is performed.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
At Portland Museum of Art
By: - Jun 14th, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History represents a landmark moment in American art: the first major exhibition of David Driskell’s remarkable career as a painter. The exhibition is featured at Maine's Portland Museum of Art through September 12.
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Chinese Strikebreakers in North Adams
75 Men Labored in Shoe Factory at Half Wages
By: - Jun 15th, 2021On June 13 in 1870, a train arrived in North Adams with 75 young men from China hired to replace striking shoe workers. Over 2,000 people watched as the men walked to the factory under police escort. The crowd was hostile, but there was no violence. The Chinese proved to be both cheaper and more efficient than the union shoe workers they replaced.
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FEVER: A 1981 Photographic Time Capsule
Allen Frame’s Portraits of New York Friends Before AIDS
By: - Jun 17th, 2021In this new book of color photographs, all shot in 1981, Allen Frame attempts to revisit a zeitgeist that had given rise to an aesthetic that was distinctly New York. The distinctiveness was related to a circle of friends, many – though not all of them - gay men, who were making art at a specific moment in New York’s history. FEVER is Frame’s personal documentary of that time, before the deepening tragedy of AIDS that would claim the lives of many of the young artists pictured in this book.
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Opera Saratoga
Inspired by Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Opera Saratoga announces the company’s return to the stage for its 60th Anniversary with a season of performances inspired by the iconic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Working closely with a team of medical professionals and a dedicated COVID Safety Officer, Opera Saratoga is committed to bringing audiences and artists together safely for the 2021 Summer Festival, which will be produced outdoors during June and July in partnership with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), Saratoga Spa State Park, and Pitney Meadows Community Farm to provide three unique performance spaces for audiences to safely enjoy two fully staged productions and a special concert.
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Nancy Rhodes Champions American Opera
Encompass Opera Theatre Produced American First
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Nancy Rhodes, founder and artistic director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, led a Zoom for an international audience of teachers. Rhodes formed Encompass just as the women’s movement was blossoming. There are special women in the American music world who have soldiered on in their professions, whatever complications were created by gender. Bursting onto the scene at about the same time as Gloria Steinem, Nancy Rhodes created an innovative company..
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Poker Flats
Pop-up Gallery in Williamstown
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021There is a new pop-up gallery, Poker Flats, in Williamstown. There will be a public opening reception Saturday June 26 4-6pm.
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The Artist Erika Marquardt
Born 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She died in 2021 in Newburyport, MA
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Erika Marquardt was an extraordinary woman, painter and artist. We were dear friends and I have followed her and Susan Erony's work since 1995. The rare collaboration between those two painters of more than 1000 small paintings ( 7"x10") lasted from 1998 to 2006. And they also collaborated on a large triptych. Altogether an amazing feat!
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Ferrin Gallery in N Adams and NY's Heller Gallery Collaborate
Melting Point Features Glass and Ceramic Artists
By: - Jun 24th, 2021As summer temperatures rise Melting Point is the theme of a collaboration between Ferrin Contemporary in the Berkshires and Heller Gallery in Manhattan. The group exhibition of glass and ceramic artists entails use of the melting point as central to their practice.
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Berlin Philharmonic Live at Waldbuhne
Bernstein, Williams and Gershwin Featured
By: - Jun 27th, 2021Berlin Philharmonic had its big season finale in Waldbühne Stadium, Olympic Park, Berlin. Gershwin, Bernstein and John Williams were featured on a program re-introducing the Berlin Philharmonic live and to their live audience. Wayne Marshall conducted, and performed the Rhapsody in Blue. Martin Grobinger, a percussionist, was featured in a John Williams’ The Special Edition.
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Barrington Stage Company Updates
Four Productions to Be Extended
By: - Jun 28th, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces extensions for the first four productions of the theatre’s 2021 season: Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Chester Bailey, Eleanor and Boca.
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Hounds by Hirschfeld
Online Exhibit Runs Through Aug. 15
By: - Jun 29th, 2021The Al Hirschfeld Foundation's latest online exhibition focuses on canines. The show features drawings of some of the most famous dogs in 20th century media. The drawings of Al Hirschfeld stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through caricature in the 20th century.
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Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams
One Man Show by Jacob Storms
By: - Jun 29th, 2021In an earlier version of Tennessee Rising, presented at the 2017 United Solo Festival in New York City, Jacob Storms received an award for the Best One-Man show. The following year, fast-travelling word of mouth got him a headlining gig at the Saint Louis’ Tennessee Williams Festival. This current version, directed by Alan Cumming, was originally scheduled to premiere at the Beaubourg Theatre in New Orleans in March 2020.
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Berkshire Jazz
Return to Live Music
By: - Jul 02nd, 2021Berkshires Jazz is delighted to be jumping back into ‘live’ programming with six events in the second half of 2021, including three in August. It is the most ambitious schedule in our 17-year history, and reflects our confidence that there is a pent-up demand for in-person jazz events.
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Ambassador of Love
Celebrating Pearl Bailey at Goodspeed by the River
By: - Jul 06th, 2021If you know Pearl Bailey’s work, the show by Rashidra Scott will let you enjoy not only the music but her wisdom and if you don’t know about her, you will discover this terrific entertainer.
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The Medici Portraits and Politics
Daniel Kershaw Installs Masterpieces at the Met
By: - Jul 08th, 2021A major exhibition of portrait painting spanning the decades between 1512-1570, seems to me a risky proposition. A great idea for scholars, students and serious amateurs of art history, but usually not a show that would attract the general public. This one is different, thanks in part to a first-rate installation by Daniel Kershaw, the Met’s senior exhibition designer.
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Lines in the Dust
A New Normal Rep Production
By: - Jul 08th, 2021The online-only theater company New Normal Rep scores another hit with its riveting production of Nikkole Salter's riveting drama, "Lines in the Dust." The production is streaming on demand through Aug. 8. The play centers on a poor, single mother who commits residency fraud in an effort to give her daughter the best possible education. "Lines in the Dust" takes place in New Jersey in 2009-2010.
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The Hudson Eye
Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Performance + Visual Arts Series
By: - Jul 09th, 2021The Hudson Eye, arranged by curator Aaron Levi Garvey, presented by Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation commences August 27th - September 6th, 2021, timed throughout Labor Day Weekend in historic downtown Hudson, NY. The Hudson Eye curatorially frames 26 participating artists with performances, exhibitions, and a Hot Topics humanities symposium co-organized by Operation Unite NY confronting nine issues spanning global topics at a local level.
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