Category: Voices

Our local communities share their stories — the Hill Country Observer offers a place to lift up many perspectives, from many backgrounds and experiences, bodies and minds, places and languages — from many migrations and diasporas and Native roots and more.

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    Through photos, artist Wendy Red Star honors her people

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    Exhibit at Mass MoCA tells story of Montana’s Apsaalooke nation   A large cutout drawn from a historical photo is part of Wendy Red Star’s new exhibit, “Apsaalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird,” in the Kidspace at Mass MoCA. Courtesy Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. He is read more

    Through photos, artist Wendy Red Star honors her people
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    The drama of democracy

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    WAM Theatre’s Suffrage Project explores voting rights, citizenship   Flo Brett, a member of WAM Theatre’s Elder Ensemble, is among those taking part in the theater company’s Suffrage Project, an online work begun in May that explores the ideas of voting and citizenship. Courtesy photo/Amy Brentano   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s an read more

    The drama of democracy
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    Crossing barriers through art

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    MoCA show explores ways to forge links across cultures, media   A detail view of Jimena Sarno’s “taracata trabaja” (2018), shows an image of the hornero, the national bird of Argentina, on ceramic plates. The sound installation, with music by Axel Krygier based on the bird’s song, will be included in “Kissing through a Curtain,” read more

    Crossing barriers through art
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    From her point of view — Women filmmakers

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      Sally Kelton (played by Sally Forrest) pleads with Steve (Leo Penn) in Ida Lupino’s 1949 film “Not Wanted.” Lupino’s work was the focus in the first of a series of seminars on women filmmakers now under way at Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Mass. Courtesy photo/Kino Lorber   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. A read more

    From her point of view — Women filmmakers
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    Building community through art

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    New Berkshires venue offers casual setting for cutting-edge works The Foundry’s Noah Bailey holds up one sample of the many fabric pieces, each quoting a presidential tweet, that form the “Tiny Pricks Project,” a new exhibit opening Dec. 7 at the venue.Susan Sabino photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. On Tuesday nights, read more

    Building community through art
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    Exploring a vibrant arts scene in Los Angeles

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    Williams professor helps reunite works from group of Chicano artists   Mundo Meza’s painting “Merman with Mandolin” (1984) is among the works brought together for the exhibit “Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.” — now on view at the Williams College Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Williams College Museum of Art   By read more

    Exploring a vibrant arts scene in Los Angeles
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    In America, echoes of occupied Europe

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    At Barrington Stage, thriller depicts a new resistance network   Alan H. Green and Natascia Diaz play the roles of Rog and Anna in “American Underground,” a thriller that runs through Oct. 20 at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. It’s a quiet fall evening, and Rog read more

    In America, echoes of occupied Europe
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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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    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