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Clark Art Lecture on the Importance of Prints in Visual Art| 08:00AM / Monday, February 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, March 2 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free lecture by art critic Susan Tallman titled "Without Prints You Don't Understand the Culture of the World." This lecture is presented in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Looked at narrowly, prints may be a niche topic in art history, but for more than 500 years they have also been the lifeblood of the circulatory system of visual art. The title of Tallman's lecture comes from the late art historian Leo Steinberg's observations about a seventeenth-century Mughal painting based on an 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Regional School Presents 'Kiss Me, Kate' | 08:00AM / Monday, February 26, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School will present the musical "Kiss Me, Kate" on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 29, March 1, and March 2, 2024, at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. Accordding to a press release: In this hilarious play within a play, sparks fly as a divorced couple find themselves starring opposite each other in a musical version of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Bella and Sam Spewack wrote the book, with music and lyrics by the legendary Cole Porter. The show won the very first Tony Award for best musical in 1949 for beloved classics like 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Falls in League Title Game| 05:29PM / Sunday, February 25, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Trinity men's basketball team Sunday outscored Williams by 15 points in the second half to earn a 59-52 win in the championship game of the NESCSAC tournament. Henry Vetter led the Bantams with 19 points. Alex Stoddard scored 18 to lead Williams (21-6). Photos from this game here. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Fun on First Sunday: 'Center Stage'| 04:02PM / Sunday, February 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, March 3 from 11 am–4 pm, the Clark Art Institute lifts the curtain on a day of art, creativity, and fun. Transform a box into a miniature theater using special images from the Clark's collection. Express yourself with comedy/tragedy mask-making. Then watch as director, writer, and educator Rudy Ramirez stages an original theatrical performance. Head into the galleries to uncover the drama of Clark artworks with a gallery guide on world-famous nineteenth-century actress Sarah Bernhardt. The Clark's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a special pop-up installation of theater-inspired prints and drawings that set the 0 Comments
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Roughley Lifts Williams Men in Conference Semi-Final| 10:58PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Dalton's Brandon Roughley scored 13 points Saturday to lead the Williams College men's basketball team to a 57-43 win over Amherst in the NESCAC semi-finals. Roughley also had three rebounds, two blocks and two steals in 24 minutes of work. Cole Prowitt-Smith scored 10 points and grabbed seven boards for Williams, which shot just 33 percent from the field but held the Mammoths to 28 percent shooting. Williams (21-5) hosts Trinity on Sunday at noon for the conference title. Women's Hockey MIDDELBURY, Vt. -- Kate Flynn and Rachel Neyman each scored a pair of goals to lift Middlebury to a 4-1 win over Williams in the NESCAC 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Free Gallery Tours For Parents and Infants | 04:18PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, March 1 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main Admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark's permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a 0 Comments
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Williamstown Decides to Clear Out Water Street LotBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:59AM / Thursday, February 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A long-time de facto parking lot on Water Street will be closed to vehicles as of March 1, the town has announced. The 1.27-acre dirt lot that was most recently the site of the town garage has been used to park cars for decades. But the town has never formally considered it a parking lot, and it is not paved, lined or regulated in any way. The town manager Thursday said that concerns about liability at the site led to a decision to place barriers around the lot to block cars this winter and for the foreseeable future. "Over the fall, we kept an eye on it, and what we were seeing was upward of 160 or 170 cars on any given day," Bob 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on Littoral Law| 08:04AM / Thursday, February 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a lecture by Sora Han (University of California, Irvine / Clark Fellow) at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The free talk examines the colonial law of the high seas and its various doctrines regulating everchanging natural borders between land and water to inform a reading of the break between the oceanic of law's words and how contemporary artists rearticulate them into other aesthetic forms. The focus of Han's lecture is Charles Gaines's Manifestos 4 (2020) and Sky Box II (2020), which 0 Comments
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3D Art Films at Images Cinema in Conjunction with 'Anselm'| 01:06PM / Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Images Cinema will present the new 3D documentary "ANSELM," about German artist Anselm Keifer, Friday, February 23 through Thursday, February 29. As a last hurrah for 3D cinema, Images will also present in limited engagement a handful of other notable 3D films by auteur film directors Wim Wenders, Ridley Scott, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón from 2011 to 2013. Full details can be found at https://www.imagescinema.org/pandoras-children-auteurist-3d. Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street Williamstown. According to a press release: James Cameron’s "AVATAR" heralded a revival of 0 Comments
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Dalton Considers Reorganizing Transfer StationBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | |
 DALTON, Mass. — The transfer station may undergo a reorganization. Town Manager Thomas Hutcheson last week showed the board a list of proposed money articles for town meeting in May. Articles proposed included funds to cover the cost of engineering or match for lifts at Town Hall, a vehicle for the Department of Public Works and Police Department, the design and installation of heat pumps at Town Hall and the library, replacement of the last two town garage doors, grant application funds, funds for cleaning up condemned homes, and more. Three of these articles involved the transfer station including a swap shop, equipment, and 25 percent 0 Comments
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Youth Baseball Registration Underway for 2024 SeasoniBerkshires.com Sports,
10:20AM / Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Registration is underway for the newly restructured Pittsfield Little League for the 2024 season. In the offseason, the Pittsfield Little League National Division and American Division merged to form a single league. The youth program is encouraging all returning and new players eligible for the 2024 campaign to register at www.pittsfieldll.com. Registration for the Adams-Cheshire Little League is available here. Dalton-Hinsdale Little League registration is here. Sign up for the Great Barrington Little League here. Northern Berkshire NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Northern Berkshire Youth Baseball League is looking for players aged 7 to 16 to 0 Comments
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Clark Art Concert By Ice Rasta and Father Hotep| 08:00AM / Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In partnership with North Adams-based Belltower Records, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by Ice Rasta and Father Hotep on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 pm. The performance takes place in the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion (located in the Clark Center), wrapping up the Concerts at the Conforti series for the spring season. Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Advance registration required; capacity is limited. For more information and to register, visit clarkart.edu/events. According to a press release: Ice Rasta is Adam McNair, a New England-based mixed media artist specializing in drum 0 Comments
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