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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Issue: June 2021
Healthy food and fine art
The artist Laurie Goodhart worked at painting ceramic shards in her Cambridge, N.Y., studio last month in preparation for an upcoming exhibit. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. Just up the hill from a blossoming magnolia tree sits the lifeblood of Laurie Goodhart’s 8-acre property: the garden. Stepping inside read more
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Issue: June 2021
A season of sculpture
From the Berkshires to Vermont, outdoor shows return and expand The artist Peter Gerakaris has created a series of Byzantine-style paintings of owls. This spring, he has been working the mosaic artist Stephen Miotto to scale up one of his images for an outdoor installation at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. Courtesy photo read more
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Issue: May 2021
Les Lalanne make playful twists on a natural world
Sculptors’ studios south of Paris hold bronze shapes like the veined cup of a giant cabbage — now at the Clark Art Institute. By Kate Abbott read more
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Issue: April 2021
Glenn Kaino illuminates a history of protest
Los Angeles artist Glenn Kaino comes to Mass MoCA, honoring a history of protest in film and music, shadow play and illusion. By Kate Abbott read more
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Issue: April 2021
In a time of isolation, Clifford Prince King explores kinship and intimacy
Los Angeles photographer Clifford Prince King offers images of refuge and care in ‘Close to You,’ a solo show of photography at Mass MoCA. By Kate Abbott read more
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Issue: February-March 2021
Knitting, weaving through a dark season
Farmers come together with skilled workers from textile mills, artists and locals who like the feel of making things by hand. By Kate Abbott read more
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Issue: December 2020-January 2021
Creating art in a holiday season darkened by Covid
Artists, nonprofits steer toward light in a darkened holiday season Michael Scupholm, the glass studio director at Salem Art Works in Salem, N.Y., shapes a blown-glass ornament. The pandemic has forced artists to work alone in SAW’s studios, rather than in groups. Courtesy photo By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer CHESHIRE, Mass. Rods of glass read more
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Issue: November 2020
As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt
As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to stay connected After the Covid-19 crisis forced it to close its building from mid-March until July, the Bennington Museum is now operating on a restricted basis. Photo by Joan K. Lentini By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer When Covid-19 began to spread into the region in early read more
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Issue: November 2020
In taut stories, women explore race, grief
The Mount to host writer Danielle Evans in virtual discussion The writer Danielle Evans will hold a virtual discussion of her new fiction collection on Nov. 15 at The Mount in Lenox, Mass. By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. On a fall evening in the early dark, a woman is reading her stories aloud. read more
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Issue: November 2020
A holiday landscape of light and sound
The grounds of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic home in Lenox, will be transformed by NightWood, a holiday season light and sound show that opens Nov. 19 and runs through Jan. 3. Courtesy photo By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. The gardens will wake with elf-light and firelight, a drumbeat and a sound read more
