Opinion
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The Berkshire Monsoon of 2008
Was the Summer a Washout for Arts and Tourism
By: - Aug 23rd, 2008A perfect storm of cool, rainy weather, $4 a gallon gas, and a lousy economy caused the coining of a new term "Staycation" during the summer of 2008. While clearly an off year Berkshire arts and tourism held their own largely through its range of world class offerings.
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Rocking Tanglewood Wilco the Real Deal
Reaching Out For New Audiences
By: - Aug 13th, 2008It is hard to believe that Janis Joplin performed at Tanglewood in 1969. As well as The Who and Miles Davis. There was a false start to revive rock in 2007 with a literally washed out Cars. But last night Wilco brought rock once again to Tanglewood. After three plus decades it's about time.
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The Berkshire Fine Arts Preview of the Best Bets for August
Our Guide in Words and Pictures to the Top Theatre, Music and Dance Offerings
By: - Jul 29th, 2008Berkshire residents are reveling in an amazing array of area arts offerings. Our monthly Preview serves to help guide your choices with helpful facts, insider details and handy links. The only mistake would be to procrastinate. Nothing gold can stay.
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Berkshire Summer Arts Festival- July Preview
Extensive Guide to Theater, Music and Dance
By: - Jun 25th, 2008The awesome array of Berkshire arts events in July is astounding. Our theater, music and dance companies create their schedules one by one, but taken together it's going to be one sensational Summer Festival right here in our own backyard. Enjoy.
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Enjoying Berkshire Museums on a Tight Budget
Local Art Museums and Historical Sites Have Many Low Cost and Free Offerings
By: - Jun 19th, 2008Part One: Use this handy guide to Berkshire museum discounts, and you can enjoy the same wonderful attractions that draw tens of thousands of people to our region each summer.
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Berkshire Spring into Summer Preview 2008
Berkshire Fine Arts Guide and Schedule
By: - May 18th, 2008Berkshire residents and visitors are about to enjoy the earliest and most promising arts season in years. We pick the best of the early music, theater, dance and gallery offerings, from Memorial Day to the end of June 2008.
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Berkshire Spring Preview 2008
Getting a Jump on the Arts
By: - Mar 17th, 2008Theater, music and dance performances are sprouting up everywhere. Here's a head's up on the most promising. After a hard winter, it's nice to see the Berkshires bloom with life again.
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Responding to President's Day 2008
Evoking Obama, Elvis, Hillary and Doris Day
By: - Feb 18th, 2008Thinking back to his teenage days on Long Island, in the 1950s, when Elvis was the King, Steve Nelson draws interesting parallels to the presidential race that has Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fighting for the nomination to lead the Democratic party. With a hint of Doris Day. A trip down memory lane that fast forwards to the future.
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Why Oil Is a Fossil As Fuel
Toward an Electrifying Future
By: - Jan 01st, 2008The Russian born scientist and engineer, Yuri Tuvim, offers a short sketch on how to quench the American thirst for oil.
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2007: An Overview
Highlights of a Year of Transition and Change
By: - Dec 28th, 2007While not a "best" and "worst" list in the usual sense we offer an overview of events and what proved to be moving and insightful while covering the arts in 2007.
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The George W. Bush 2008 Holiday Calendar
A Final Countdown
By: - Dec 14th, 2007Just in time for the Holidays a festive George W. Bush Calendar. In the last of eight magnificent years as they say we are winding down into the home stretch.
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Contemporary Artists Center Nixes North Adams Development
After 17 Years CAC Plans Relocation to Troy, New York
By: - Dec 11th, 2007Negotiations for the Contemporary Artists Center to develop a permanent home in the former Notre Dame church property in North Adams ended in acrimony and finger pointing. It is a serious loss and set back for an emerging but struggling arts community.
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The Berkshire Fine Arts Holiday Preview
Check Over Our List of Events, Both Naughty and Nice
By: - Nov 13th, 2007The array of holiday treats taking place in the Berkshires has grown, and is more eclectic than ever.
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Mass MoCA Starts Cleaning Up the Buchel Mess
Making Way for the Jenny Holzer Installation To Open on November 17
By: - Sep 25th, 2007In reponse to Friday's Federal Court decision in favor of Mass MoCA the artist Christoph Buchel filed an appeal. But today the museum has announced that it will trash the unfinished work immediately to make way for an installation by Jenny Holzer to open as soon as possible.
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Judge Allows Mass MoCA's Unfinished Buchel Show
Costly Victory for North Adams Museum
By: - Sep 22nd, 2007Originally scheduled to open last December Federal Judge Michael A. Posner ruled yesterday that Mass MoCA may indeed open the unfinished exhibition of Christoph Buchel in its largest gallery. Did the museum simply prevail in a no win situation? The jury is still out.
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Tangled Wood Tales
Tanglewood Past, Present and Future
By: - Sep 06th, 2007The volunteers, the deficits, the sniping from the sidelines: You have to expect it when you are biggest target. The BSO's Berkshire summer of 2007 lends itself to parody, speculation and reminiscences.
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Berkshire Fall Arts Preview 2007
Theater - Dance - Music - Film - Visual Arts
By: - Sep 01st, 2007An eclectic array of possibilities makes this the richest Fall arts season yet.
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Governor Deval Patrick Visits Pittsfield
Open Meeting with Berkshire Arts and Culture Leaders
By: - Jul 13th, 2007Julianne Boyd hosted an open meeting in her Barrington Stage Company theatre in Pittsfield between arts leaders and Deval Patrick, the first Democrat Governor of Massachusetts in far too long.
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Critical Mess2
How and Why We Write
By: - Feb 23rd, 2007More response to the collection of essays "Critical Mess: Art critics and the state of their practice." And a reply to a Peter Plagens piece on critical writing in the February, 2007 issue of Art in America.
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Feeling Listless: Annual Awards
A Critic's Apathy
By: - Jan 05th, 2007Overcome by ennui at the prospect of coming up with that annual best and worst list.
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