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Mass MoCA Holds Grand Opening for Massive Building 6By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:01PM / Sunday, May 28, 2017 | |
Museum director Joseph Thompson listens to speakers at the grand opening event in Courtyard D. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday officially became the largest contemporary art museum in the world when it opened its doors to another 120,000 square feet of gallery and event space. With the clipping of an abstract (invisible) yet "shiny and glittery" ribbon, Executive Director Joseph Thompson ushered the crowd gathered in Courtyard D into Building 6 — the Robert W. Wilson Building. Thompson's brevity on this day is understandable. He's been talking about what the doubling of gallery space at 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA's Building 6 Opens May 28By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:01PM / Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A visitor to Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art this summer could potentially wander more than four miles if he or she circumnavigated every gallery.
So, should the museum's $65 million expansion and renovation not work out, joked Executive Director Joseph Thompson, it could always open as a health club.
In just 12 days, Mass MoCA is set to double its gallery space with the opening of the three-story Building 6. The banging of hammers accompanied Thompson's talk and tour of the museum space during a press preview on Tuesday morning as last-minute work continues in preparing the 130,000 square-foot space.
"We have more room to show more
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North Adams a Canvas for Mass MoCA Art This SummerBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:22AM / Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will light up the city's famed steeples and turn the entire north side of the museum into an outdoor arts canvas. The use of sound, light and text are designed to tie the city into the museum's summer season, part of an ongoing initiative to get visitors to wander beyond the massive arts complex. The Public Arts Commission on Wednesday approved elements of two of the installations that will be partially placed on municipal property. The first, a short-term installation by Jenny Holzer, includes five projectors projecting large-scale text selected by Holzer along the north side 0 Comments
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Lee Teenager Wins Congressional Art CompetitionBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:30PM / Friday, May 12, 2017 | |
The self-portrait will hang in the Capitol in Washington D.C. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Fiora Caligiuri-Randall has a natural gift. Only the second acrylic painting the 14-year-old has done will now hang in the halls of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Fiora's painting beat out 45 other high school artist's work throughout the First Massachusetts Congressional District in this year's Congressional Art Competition. "I am a self-taught artist. I haven't taken any art classes. This year, I decided to take some art classes at Berkshire Community College. I took Drawing 1 last semester and I did this painting at fundamentals of painting this 2 Comments
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'A Quiet Passion': Rhyme and ReasonBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:36PM / Thursday, May 11, 2017 | |
 Digging into my trove of words rarely used to describe most movies, but certainly apt in the case of director Terence Davies' biopic of the American poet Emily Dickinson, "A Quiet Passion," I have located and here employ the term, highbrowed. Truth be told, though I spent much of my formative years at institutions of higher learning where one can stave off the inevitability of work and earn a degree or two by paying the tuition and showing up for class somewhat regularly, I estimate that I just barely learned enough to appreciate this masterpiece.
Continuing in my hifalutin assay of expressions pertinent to this highly intelligent work, note that I've never really liked
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'The Circle': The Shape of Things to Come?By Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
02:45PM / Friday, May 05, 2017 | |
 Do you find yourself peering endlessly into your smartphone, hoping to make connections, seeking information, wiling away the time, looking for the secret of life and maybe even G-d? It has become your crystal ball and indeed, if we take the cue from director James Ponsoldt's "The Circle," it may show the way to a very creepy future. More important than it is good, this fictionalized audit of the mass voyeurism that has become a frightening offshoot of the information explosion demands the attention of people who still care to think for themselves. The delve into this world by Mae Holland, a young woman previously in a dead-end customer service job who is recruited by a 0 Comments
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Red Lion Reopens Dining Room With $1M Renovated KitchenBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:24AM / Saturday, April 29, 2017 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Red Lion Inn bakes more than 6,000 muffins and some 1,300 of its famous apple pies every year. So when the bakeshop in the multiroom kitchen showed signs of structural distress, inn management decided if it was time to revamp this very important area, why not do the whole kitchen over? After more than two months of construction, inn officials cut the ribbon on the newly renovated $1 million kitchen on Thursday afternoon, capping the latest update of the historic structure whose roots date back to the 1770s. Owner Nancy Fitzpatrick joked it was the kind of project done only about every 75 years or so. "So you're all 1 Comment
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'Born in China': Animal MagnetismBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:01PM / Friday, April 28, 2017 | |
 One of the key joys of seeing "Born in China," a splendidly picturesque documentary about snow leopard Dawa and her two cubs; Tao Tao, a young snub-nosed monkey; and a giant panda
Ya Ya and her daughter, Mei Mei, was worth listening to the kids in the audience emoting. Normally, I would rail at the ragamuffins' commentary with an agitation worthy of the great W.C. Fields. But this was different. For many of the seemingly delighted and relatively polite tykes, this was their first movie experience. Respect must be paid.
Here was the nascence of what might become a lifelong love of that to which I have attributed everything from a zeal for adventure to the development of
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New Gallery Drawn by North Adams' Air of Contemporary Artby John Seven, iBerkshires Contributor
05:58AM / Saturday, April 22, 2017 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A new art gallery in downtown North Adams is the result of the city's unique relationship with contemporary art as a lure to artists from other places. Gravity Gallery co-owners Lynn Richardson and Paul McMullan first became acquainted with the city in 2012 when both artists displayed work in Downstreet Art. Richardson's installation, "Arctic Garden," addressed climate change in context of Richardson's hometown, Winnipeg. McMullen's work was also featured in a pop-up gallery from Gallery 107, ceramic work that functioned as the "guardians of the gallery." Richardson and McMullan are art professors at 4 Comments
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'Gifted': The Long and Short of ItBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
03:03PM / Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | |
 "Saw 'Gifted.' Little girl genius. Enjoyed it. Intellectual and emotional ... homage to brainpower. Good acting. Won't play the hinterlands." Thus read my text to Hesh, my longtime movie sidekick who, absent from my viewing of director Marc Webb's touching but predictable tale about the trials and tribulations of a 7-year-old math genius, asked what I had seen. Succinct if not eloquent, I suggest it illustrates I'm able to pen a discourse on films considerably short of my usual 835 words. It should also prove a boon to those enduring, charitable readers who, while wishing to be apprised of the film in question, would just as soon not slog through my 4 Comments
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