Tag: Massachusetts

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    College aims to strengthen creative ties

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    New MCLA institute builds links to Berkshires arts organizations The poet and essayist Nikki Giovanni spoke in June at a conference organized by the new Institute for Arts and Humanities at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. The bowls lay on the paths under the read more

    College aims to strengthen creative ties
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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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    Changing rules for immigrant driver’s licenses?

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    N.Y., Mass. debate changes to help immigrant workers Emerson Exante, a legal immigrant from Guatemala who works at a Washington County dairy farm, shows off his new New York driver’s license. But for the many undocumented workers at farms and elsewhere in the region, getting a license isn’t an option. Legislative proposals to change that read more

    Changing rules for immigrant driver’s licenses?
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    Plan to control geese sparks debate

    In the Berkshires, some see nuisance, others see nature   Wide lawns along the shore of Richmond Pond have become a popular summer gathering spot for Canada geese. Some local landowners have come up with a plan to reduce the numbers of geese they say have become a nuisance, but others who live near the read more

    Plan to control geese sparks debate
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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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    In a graying region, welcome willing hands

    One of the wonders of our current period of political polarization is the apparent ease with which some people are managing to hold fast to their ideological viewpoints even in the face of lots of contradictory evidence. And nowhere is that phenomenon more evident that in our ugly national debate over immigration. Last month, our read more

    In a graying region, welcome willing hands
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    Naumkeag grows a new focus on spring

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    In bid to extend season, Naumkeag prepares first-ever daffodil festival   The 44-room house at Naumkeag, built in the 1880s as the Choate family’s summer “cottage,” towers above its terraced gardens. The historic property will host its first-ever Daffodil Festival this month.Kate Abbott photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. The linden trees may read more

    Naumkeag grows a new focus on spring
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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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    Rekindling a community radio spirit

    New studio, fund-raising drive set for nonprofit community station By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. After several years without a home, the nonprofit community radio station of the southern Berkshires is setting up a new studio and preparing to resume a full schedule of locally produced programming. On Feb. 1, WBCR-LP began leasing a read more

    Rekindling a community radio spirit