Tag: Williamstown

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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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    Paris of Impressionism through women’s eyes, hands

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    At the Clark, exhibit traces struggles, triumphs as artists sought equality Rosa Bonheur’s “Plowing in Nivernais” (1850) is among more than 80 paintings featured in the exhibition “Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900,” whichs runs through Labor Day at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. Courtesy American Federation of the Arts   By read more

    Paris of Impressionism through women’s eyes, hands
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    At Wild Oats food co-op, testing limits of cooperation

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    Workers at a food co-op form a union, testing limits of collectivism By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Erin Merrigan, left, and Karen Kane show off buttons supporting a labor union at Wild Oats Market. Workers at the food co-op in Williamstown voted to unionize in February 2016, but the union and management have read more

    At Wild Oats food co-op, testing limits of cooperation
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    Vivid images, colliding cultures — Meleko Mokgosi explores love and democracy

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    In scenes from Africa, artist explores lessons of love and democracy By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   A detail from one of Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale paintings, now on view at the Williams College Museum of Art, shows two boys playing with a dog. The paintings depict scenes of daily life in southern Africa while read more

    Vivid images, colliding cultures — Meleko Mokgosi explores love and democracy
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    Looking racism in the eye

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    In new book, Williams professor confronts his roots in the Jim Crow era By JOHN SEVENContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Charles Dew, an American history professor at Williams College, is known for his expertise on the Civil War and the era of Reconstruction. His new memoir details his experiences growing up in the segregated South read more

    Looking racism in the eye
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    Research center set to reopen at the Clark

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    New gallery space features exhibit of early photography By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Graduate students and scholars-in-residence are already using the newly renovated Manton Research Center at the Clark Art Institute, but the center will have its grand reopening to the public on the weekend of Nov. 12-13, with exhibits, lectures and a read more

    Research center set to reopen at the Clark
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    Staying true to the best in film

    New director keeps tradition alive as Images Cinema nears 100 By JOHN SEVENContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Images Cinema got its start in 1916 as the Walden Theater, a silent-movie house on Spring Street in Williamstown. When Doug Jones took over as director of Images Cinema two years ago, he began to look to the read more

    Staying true to the best in film
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    Choreographing a night of stargazing

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    Artist guides massive quilt-making project in northern Berkshires By JOHN SEVENContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   The choreographer Emily Johnson, an artist in residence at Williams College, conducts a visioning session with students at Williamstown Elementary School in preparation for “Stargazing,” a nightlong community event planned for the spring of 2017. Courtesy photo/Maggie Thompson Some artists read more

    Choreographing a night of stargazing
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    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed

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    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The Clark Center, a new visitors center, and the Manton Research Center are seen from across a new 1-acre reflecting pool at the redesigned campus of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. For lovers of fine art, it’s an occasion worthy of fireworks: On the Fourth read more

    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed
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    Saving a planet, one step at a time

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    Pair from Berkshires join cross-country trek for climate-change action By ALEX ELVINContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Shira Wohlberg has walked more than 1,000 miles since March, when she set out from Los Angeles as part of a coast-to-coast march aimed at spurring action to combat climate change.By late May, the group had made its way read more

    Saving a planet, one step at a time