Tag: North Adams

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    Modern landscapes, digitally refracted

    Exhibit showcases a pioneer of using computers in visual art By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Works by Anne Morgan Spalter, who wrote a widely used textbook on the use of computers in the visual arts, are the focus of a new exhibit at the Independent Art Projects gallery in North Adams. In Anne read more

    Modern landscapes, digitally refracted
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    Buzz of the back yard

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    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. When Alethea Morrison started her journey into the world of beekeeping five years ago, she and her husband kept a journal to document the experience.Last year, the journal became a book – “Homegrown Honey Bees: Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest” – put out by Storey read more

    Buzz of the back yard
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    Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops play FreshGrass

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    Arts & Culture Sept. 2014 Carolina Chocolate Drops to perform at Fresh Grass Festival By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   When the Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at the opening night of this year’s FreshGrass festival in North Adams, Rhiannon Giddens, left, will be the only one of the founding members still in the read more

    Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops play FreshGrass
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    Worlds apart, under one roof

    Exhibit links artist’s life experiences, Egypt’s upheaval By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Julia Morgan-Leamon’s “Split/Level” takes a suburban housing style from the 1970s and reshuffles it into a metaphorical zone that’s part personal history and part global reality. The exhibition, which opened July 31 and remains on view through Aug. 24 in Gallery read more

    Worlds apart, under one roof
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    Teresita Fernandez — Large in scope, tiny in detail

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    Perception of scale provides keys to new Mass MoCA exhibit By JOHN SEVENContributing writer   Carrie Snyder photo The installation “Sfumato (Epic),” featuring 40,000 small graphite rocks, is among the pieces that make up Brooklyn artist Teresita Fernandez’s new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.   NORTH ADAMS, Mass.When Brooklyn-based read more

    Teresita Fernandez — Large in scope, tiny in detail
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    Rediscovering a Latin American epic

    Local press plans new translation of Neruda’s ‘Canto General’ By ALEX ELVINContributing writer   NORTH ADAMS, Mass.An independent press in the Berkshires is preparing to publish the first English translation in more than 20 years of Pablo Neruda’s epic “Canto General.” First published in its current form in 1950, Neruda’s ode to the people and read more

    Rediscovering a Latin American epic
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    Bound by cotton — region’s forgotten role in slave trade

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    Historian, artist detail region’s forgotten role in slave trade By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Most Northerners assume that slavery was a Southern issue, and that the main role of people in upstate New York and New England was to help slaves flee to freedom in Canada and to muster troops to fight read more

    Bound by cotton — region’s forgotten role in slave trade
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    A pinnacle of culture? Partners shape mission for Bascom Lodge

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    By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer ADAMS, Mass.Brothers Peter and John Dudek and their business partner Brad Parsons are extending the vertical reach of the culture and the creative economy in the Berkshires. Three years ago, the men took over operation of Bascom Lodge, a historic structure at the summit of Mount Greylock, the highest point read more

    A pinnacle of culture? Partners shape mission for Bascom Lodge
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    Next step for health care

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    With coverage nearly universal, Mass. looks to cut costs, push prevention By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. From his second-floor office on the campus of North Adams Regional Hospital, Chip Joffe-Halpern has a unique vantage point from which to watch the course of health care reform in Massachusetts. As executive director of Ecu-Health read more

    Next step for health care
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    Children of industry

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    By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt.Looking at the canvas, you can almost hear the enormous machines whirring and clanging and feel the cotton lint hanging in the air of the mill room as you, a child, work. In another, you see “the overseer,” an ominous, shadowy presence. Maybe he’s there, or maybe he’s read more

    Children of industry