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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    Flights of fancy – Hot-air balloon travels as a show

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    Traveling exhibit, in form of hot-air balloon, to touch down locally An artist’s rendering shows “New Horizon,” which will visit the Berkshires in late July, stopping in Williamstown and Stockbridge. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. It will gleam like lake water and drift in a clear sky. In late July, the read more

    Flights of fancy – Hot-air balloon travels as a show
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    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art

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    Two shows explore how the 1960s reshaped Vermont’s politics and art In 1960, demonstrators in downtown Bennington joined nationwide protests that pushed the Woolworth’s chain to end segregation of its lunch counters in the South. This photo, from the May 1960 Bennington College Bulletin, was credited to Jon L. Allen and is included in the read more

    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art
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    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun

    Adirondack festival plans three musicals and a thriller in milestone season Sid Solomon, Sam Kedere, Janet Krupin and Luce Lavely perform in Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 2018 production of “The Jedi Handbook.” The festival will offer four new shows for its 25th season. Courtesy photo/Jim McLaughlin   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. In the read more

    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun
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    Judge bars college from selling arts center

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    The founders of the Bennington Center for the Arts have gone to court in an effort to annul their gift of the center to Southern Vermont College. In a lawsuit filed May 21 in Bennington Superior Court, Bruce Laumeister and Elizabeth Small argue that when they agreed to donate the arts center and its collection read more

    Judge bars college from selling arts center
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    Mass MoCA explores shifting views of what’s real

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    In MoCA group show, artists explore human condition in post-truth era   Titus Kaphar’s oil painting “Seeing Through Time 2” (2018) is among works by 16 artists that are gathered in the group show “Suffering from Realness” that opened last month at Mass MoCA. courtesy Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer read more

    Mass MoCA explores shifting views of what’s real
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    Broadway to Bennington

    Oldcastle Theatre sets stage for new ‘transitional’ season Sarah Corey and Peter Langstaff perform in Oldcastle Theatre’s 2018 production of A.R. Gurney’s “Fourth Wall.”Erika Floriani photo/courtesy Oldcastle Theatre Company   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. It was the early 1970s when Eric Peterson and a handful of his actor friends left the shadow of read more

    Broadway to Bennington
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    Good, evil and a superhero

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    A winding multi-colored pathway gives the feeling of being on a gameboard as it leads visitors through “Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass.” The show by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock opened last month at Mass MoCA. Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art   By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Every art show read more

    Good, evil and a superhero
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    Self-portraits for a digital age

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    Exhibit puts Instagram ‘selfies’ among art exploring gender, identity The South African photographer Zanele Muholi’s 2012 portrait of Kekeletso Khana, part of her “Faces and Phases” series, is among the works on view in the current “Possible Selves” exhibit at WIlliams College Museum of Art. The show also includes 200 Instagram images.Photo courtesy of Williams read more

    Self-portraits for a digital age
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    A downtown theater reborn

    After decades-long intermission, performance space has second act Elizabeth Miller bought the long-dormant Park Theater in downtown Glens Falls and restored it to its original function as a space for performances and entertainment. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. The activities planned in the coming months at The Park read more

    A downtown theater reborn
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    Celebrating light in a season of darkness

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    Exhibit explores traditions through artwork from children’s holiday books “Cultural Traditions: A Holiday Celebration,” now on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, includes Uri Shulevitz’s illustation from “Dusk” (2013), above, and Brian Pinkney’s images for the book “Seven Candles for Kwanzaa,” right. Courtesy Norman Rockwell Museum/Copyright Uri Shulevitz   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.People read more

    Celebrating light in a season of darkness