Yomarie Silva-O'Neal, an artist in residencen at Mass MoCA, sculpts in her studio. Press photo by Thomas J. Logan, courtesy of Assets 4 Artists

Arts

Here are the Hill Country Observer’s articles about the Arts, listed from newest to oldest. Topics include theater, music, dance, painting, sculpture, film, and writing. The Hill Country Observer talks with artists and makers in many media, in New York, Vermont and Western Massachusetts.

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    Celebrating the self-taught artist

    ‘Grassroots art’ is focus in exhibit at Bennington Museum By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Stephen C. Warren’s “Memory Ware Tower” (1894). Photos courtesy of the Bennington Museum The Mona Lisa has been in the Louvre since 1797; one of Monet’s water-lily paintings sold at auction for more than $60 million in 2008. These and read more

    Celebrating the self-taught artist
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    A toddler as muse

    Bennington artist blends family, creative lives in works that challenge By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   The artist Renee Bouchard has lately been inviting her 2-year-old son, Ensor, to share in her creative process. The result is a series of paintings that will be on display at two locations in downtown Bennington this summer read more

    A toddler as muse
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    Mold forces removal of artwork

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    Georgi Museum seeks funds for repairs, restoration By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SHUSHAN, N.Y.   The Georgi Museum has closed and more than 60 works of art have been removed from the property while the museum’s leaders raise funds to remedy a mold infestation. George Bouret photo An infestation of mold has forced the Georgi Museum read more

    Mold forces removal of artwork
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    At Dorset festival, the (new) play’s the thing

    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt. Photo courtesy Dorset Theatre Festival Several thousand years ago in southern Greece, the ancient amphitheater at Epidaurus became known for its fine acoustics – a place where a whisper on stage could be heard from the top row of the proscenium. Today, tour guides to Epidaurus are to known read more

    At Dorset festival, the (new) play’s the thing
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    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties

    New exhibit reveals the range of cartoonist Roz Chast By JOHN SEVENContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. As a student in art school, Roz Chast wanted to be a cartoonist but was stuck in a world that looked down on that form and insisted she work on creating fine-art paintings instead. But with a massive new show read more

    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties
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    Myth, religion and comic-book heroes in MoCA show

    By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Visitors ponder a small part of artist Jim Shaw’s sprawling exhibit, “Entertaining Doubts,” which opened in late March at Mass MoCA. John Seven photo To walk around “Entertaining Doubts,” Jim Shaw’s sprawling new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is to step into the mind read more

    Myth, religion and comic-book heroes in MoCA show
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    From business to brushstroke

    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   Tony Conner of Bennington, Vt., was working for an oil company in New Jersey in the 1980s when he set a goal of becoming a professional artist. Courtesy photo For Tony Conner, the road not taken was as clear as a lone printed word on a business memo read more

    From business to brushstroke
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    Music from snippets and sketches

    De Jong, cellist and pioneer of sampling, celebrates first solo album By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y.   The cellist Paul de Jong is best known for his decade of work as one-half of The Books, a duo whose compositions made extensive use of sampling, the capturing of short bits of recorded sound. Four read more

    Music from snippets and sketches
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    Fast friends

    Photographer seeks out the reality behind Facebook’s virtual world By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Shannon Rose Riley and Joey Ramone the dog of San Jose, Calif., are among the subjects of more than 600 portraits by the photographer Tanya Hollander, who set out to meet and photograph all of her Facebook friends. read more

    Fast friends
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    A passion for performance

    In Dorset, community-theater tradition thrives in ninth decade By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt.   Members of The Dorset Players, seen here in this fall’s production of “The Heiress,” are apt to play many roles both on and off the stage. The community theater group has no artistic director; instead, its board makes group decisions read more

    A passion for performance