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Images Cinema Hosts Annual Oscar Party| 06:00PM / Friday, February 17, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema is rolling out the red carpet at its annual Oscar-viewing part on Sunday night, Feb. 26, at next-door Red Herring restaurant.
The party starts at 7 with the broadcast of the 84th Academy Awards on a large screen in the upstairs area and on televisions in the bar area.
DJ Karl Mullen of Williamstown will emcee the event and spin early and mid-20th century tunes during commercial breaks. Mixologist Brent Heeringa will be mixing Oscar-themed drinks of his design.
Formal wear is encouraged and prizes will be awarded. There also chances sold to win a year of free movies at Images and opportunities to give an Oscar speech. There will also be a brief dance 0 Comments
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Reading Benefits Higher GroundBy Larry Murray, Berkshire On Stage
02:59PM / Saturday, February 04, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Like most places, the Northern Berkshires has two distinct types of personalities, one optimistic, the other pessimistic. Rarely do the two agree.
The playwright Moliere delineated the latter in "The Misanthrope." He describes his character as someone who has a basic distrust of human nature and therefore dislikes and mistrusts other people.
"The Misanthrope's" opposite is the optimist, the humanitarian, the person who believes that adversity can be overcome, that people are essentially good. On Feb. 27, the two will meet at the Clark Art Institute as the Willliamstown Theatre Festival stages a benefit reading of the Moliere play to benefit the 0 Comments
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Milne Library Displays Retired Art Teacher's Work| 02:32PM / Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The David & Joyce Milne Library iwill host the multimedia show of Margaret Fernandez for the month of February.
Fernandez has worked in a variety of media. She now prefers mosaics from found objects such as plastic, shells and glass, as well as working in watercolor and pastel. Her travels have inspired her to draw from nature, with the Berkshires providing some inspiration, and urban centers. She uses these sketches to recreate the images for her mosaics. Some of her frames have been made from scrap and driftwood found locally and on Cape Cod.
Born in Chicago, Fernandez was an art history major at Wellesley College and earned her master’s in art 0 Comments
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'Red Tails': ... And Stout of HeartBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:15PM / Friday, January 27, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Twentieth Century Fox
The saga of the Tuskegee Airmen benefits from air support in the George Lucas' film 'Red Tails.'
When first the Tuskegee Airmen take to the sky in "Red Tails," director Anthony Hemingway's action-filled chronicle inspired by the African-American 332nd Squadron's service during WWII, you want to be a pilot, too. At least I did. And the six 15-year-old boys to my right, who quieted down once the pageantry began, apparently agreed.
Cut it any way you wish, this is a war movie, proving that all-black casts are subject to the same bromides that have been a mainstay of the genre ever since the earliest 0 Comments
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Rockwell Museum Hosts Annual High School Art Show| 02:44PM / Thursday, January 26, 2012 | |
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The annual Berkshire County High School Art Show returns for its 26th year at Norman Rockwell Museum with an exhibition opening on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The opening event will include refreshments, the chance to meet the artists behind the works on view, as well as a lecture at 2 for budding artists and their families provided by multimedia artist Ricky Bernstein.
This year's exhibit showcases 131 works of art in a variety of media from 16 different schools and organizations in Berkshire County. The show allows young artists ro learn how to prepare their work for a gallery show, acquire a personal understanding of the exhibition process, and have the 0 Comments
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Williams Appoints New Art Museum Director| 03:25PM / Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College named Christina Olsen as the new director of the Williams College Museum of Art on Wednesday.
Olsen has been director of education and public programs at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon since 2008 and previously worked at the Getty Foundation and Getty Museum.
Olsen, who will begin her appointment on May 1, comes to WCMA with experience in public programming, community outreach, and the incorporation of new technologies into the museum experience. Trained as a Renaissance scholar, Olsen has a record of creating innovative curatorial and educational projects by working to deepen existing audience participation and broaden the scope of her 0 Comments
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Officials to Mark Release of $1.45M in Cultural Grants| 07:17PM / Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — State officials and cultural leaders will celebrate the release of more than $1.45 million in new Cultural Facilities Fund grants on Friday.
The official release will be held at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center at 11 a.m and will include Massachusetts Cultural Council Chairman Ira Lapidus of Williamstown, Sen. Benjamin B. Downing, D-Pittsfield, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development and Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli of Lenox, chairman of the Cultural Caucus.
This recent round of CFF grants for Western Massachusets come from a $7 million capital appropriation approved by Gov. Deval Patrick. The entire list 2 Comments
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Images Cinema Kicks Off International Family Films| 02:37PM / Monday, January 16, 2012 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema’s monthly International Family Film resumes with "Party Mix," a collection of new international shorts compiled by the New York International Children’s Film Festival, on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. Tickets are $5, free for EBT cardholders, unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m.
In English; 68 minutes
For ages 7-14, and up
A selection of entertaining, thought-provoking and visually stunning short films from the New York International Children's Film Festival. The program includes films from the United Kingdom, Turkey, Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, Australia, and the United States. Animation and live action, in 0 Comments
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Retrospective of Revolutionary Asco Group at WCMA| 02:33PM / Monday, January 16, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art presents "Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987," the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco.
The exhibit is organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and on view Feb. 4 through July 29.
The core team of artists, Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie F. Herron III, and Patssi Valdez, met in East Los Angeles in the late 1960s and took the name Asco from the Spanish word for disgust or nausea.
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, Asco developed a sophisticated body of work attentive to the specific neighborhoods of Los 0 Comments
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'A Dangerous Method' Is Worth RiskingBy Michael Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
07:14PM / Friday, January 06, 2012 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Keira Knightley plays with the heads of young Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Esoteric, a bit obscure and yet nonetheless absorbing, director David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method" chronicles what very well may be one of the earliest psychological dramas. Or more correctly, the first one occurring just after the terminology, now so common, came into use. Dr. Jung meets Dr. Freud and our libidos will never be the same.
It's Zurich, 1904, and Sabina Spielrein, a horribly hysterical, young Russian woman is brought, completely fettered, to Dr. Carl Jung's clinic in a last ditch hope that he might cure her. To the backdrop of his 0 Comments
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