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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    Ceramics and sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA

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    Ceramics, sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA   Tomato frames bound together with kudzu vines form one portion of Lily Cox-Richard’s new installation, “Weep Holes,” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The museum also has a new group show, “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” with works by eight artists. Photo read more

    Ceramics and sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA
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    Bennington Museum reopens with new exhibitions

      Arts & Culture April 2022     BENNINGTON, Vt.The Bennington Museum reopens to the public on April 1 with several new exhibitions.The museum’s major 2022 exhibit, “Parks & Recreation,” will explore the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. From state forests to the Green Mountain National read more

    Bennington Museum reopens with new exhibitions
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    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking

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    Show at Hyde celebrates master printer Blackburn and those he inspired   Robert Blackburn’s “Refugees” (also known as “People in a Boat”) was completed about 1938, when he was still a teenager, and nearly a decade before he opened the printmaking workshop that would reshape his own art and the works of many others. He read more

    Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking
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    For winter, art inspired by snow and ice

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    Famed snowflake photos offer starting point for Bennington group show   Erik Hoffner’s “Ice Fishing 12” is one of a series of photographs he’s taken of ice-fishing holes that have frozen over. Some of these photos are included in the new group show “Transient Beauty” at the Bennington Museum. Courtesy of Bennington Museum   By read more

    For winter, art inspired by snow and ice
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    Japanese prints in the 20th century – Tradition reshaped in a changing world

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    Exhibit traces evolution of Japanese prints in the 20th century   Kawase Hasui’s “Rain in Uchiyamashita, Okayama District” (1923) is among the works included in the exhibit “Competing Currents: 20th Century Japanese Prints,” which opens Nov. 30 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. Courtesy of Sterling and Francine Clark Art read more

    Japanese prints in the 20th century – Tradition reshaped in a changing world
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    At MCLA and Williams, new works by contemporary artists

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    At MCLA and Williams, new works by contemporary artists   Joshua Ross, the artist in residence this fall at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, is working on a series of drawings in colored pencil in the Art Lab at Gallery 51, the college’s exhibition space in downtown North Adams. Susan Sabino photo   By KATE read more

    At MCLA and Williams, new works by contemporary artists
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    Celebrating the world’s cultures

    Collector aims to share art, promote global understanding   Justin Bibee sits among some of the objects from his collection of ethnographic art. He has created a no-cost loan program to display the works at libraries, schools and other institutions. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Justin Bibee knew from read more

    Celebrating the world’s cultures
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    A season of prose and poetry

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    Events across region celebrate writers and their words   Matt Tannenbaum, the proprietor of The Bookstore in Lenox, Mass., for the past 45 years, stands behind the counter at the store’s wine bar. The store is the focus of a new documentary that will debut this month at the Berkshire International Film Festival. Susan Sabino read more

    A season of prose and poetry
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    Space to dream with music in the air – Brian Raphael Nabors at Tanglewood

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    At Tanglewood, a young composer finds recognition, inspiration   Brian Raphael Nabors is among the contemporary composers whose works are being performed at this summer’s Tanglewood festival. His orchestral work “Iubilo” will be presented Monday, Aug. 16. Courtesy photo.   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. The musicians open fast and light, in held strings read more

    Space to dream with music in the air – Brian Raphael Nabors at Tanglewood
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    The return of live music

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      A performance by Robanic with the Caribbean Sounds, held in late June, is part of a Friday evening Concerts in the Courtyard series at the Bennington Museum. George Bouret photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer   Low strings move below warm chords and a rhythm like rain: In a quiet tenor with a catch read more

    The return of live music