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June 2008
April
4 - June 1
Bennington Museum
Bennington,
VT
Tool Aesthetics: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Presented in conjunction with "Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit"
this show will look at the tool collection of the Bennington Museum in
an art historical manner.
Bennington
Museum
Bennington,
VT
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit
"Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit" is an exhibition
of contemporary art, each of which has, at its visible core, a tool that
was important for women's domestic labor in the past (the 18th century
through World War II). The old tool becomes the fulcrum for a work of
art. Each work and the exhibit as a whole have the power to speak to viewers
independently, Artists are placing objects such as a dressmaker’s
figure, diapers, graters, grinders, needles, pins, pots, pans, baskets,
garden-seed-packets, rakes, hoes, dress patterns, dish-rags, rolling pins,
brooms, buckets, darning eggs, knives, rug-beaters, and other tools at
the center of their work. One piece will have an early 19th century distaff
at its visible core. Part of the point of this exhibition project is to
explore the idea of "seeing as context." As I imagine the process
here, I look at a tool that facilitated very hard and repetitive labor
and that evokes women's degradation as domestic drudges. I look again,
through my early 21st century eyes, at a moment when "old tools"
have become commodified and expensive, and I see costly beauty. Reimagining
the distaff toolkit for the purposes of this exhibition might include
(overlapping) gestures in any of the following directions – or other
directions – history / memory / gender / labor / material culture
/ household objects / family relations / power and powerlessness / drudgery
/ craft and beauty. Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit puts utility in conversation
with art, the past in conversation with the present.
April
12 - July 6
Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown,
MA
Special Installation: Framing Colonial Albany
Working
in conjunction with conservators from the Williamstown Art Conservation
Center, this year's Lenett Fellow, Katherine Alcauskas, researched an
eighteenth-century portrait of a member of one of Albany's founding families—the
Van Rensselaers. Exploring the artist, itinerant painter Thomas McIlworth,
the painting, and its elaborate frame, this presentation will highlight
the findings of this yearlong project.
April
26 - June 1
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
What’s the Story?
Museums are more than repositories of objects—museums tell stories.
From works of art depicting historical or mythological tales to personal
items once connected to a real life to abstract images evoking one’s
own imagination, the objects here all have tales to tell. From the carved
tusk of a legendary elephant with Pittsfield connections to Victorian
memorial embroidery to paintings by Norman Rockwell, the works of art,
historical artifacts, and natural science specimens in this exhibition
explore storytelling as an important way that people make sense of their
world.
April
26 - August 17
Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown,
MA
Special Installation: Pictorial Vision: American and
European Photography
Drawn
from the collections of the Clark and the Troob Family Foundation, this
installation features photographs dating from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Among the artists represented are Peter Henry Emerson, Eduard Steichen,
Alvin Langdon Coburn, George Seeley, and Pierre Dubreuil.
May
10 - June 21
Bennington Museum
Bennington,
VT
Local Artist Program: Leslie
Parke
Artist Statement: Ever since I returned from my stay as an artist-in-residence
at the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny, France, I have been on a relentless
pursuit of painting light effects: light reflections, transparencies,
translucencies, glitter, sparkle, shimmer. How light affects natural surfaces,
such as flowers, shells and water; and artificial surfaces, such as patent
leather, foil, Mylar, transparent ribbons, glass, crystal, and silver.
For a while the more elusive and impossible the image was to paint the
more it interested me. Once I became accustomed to looking at the world
through this filter it affected how I saw everything. An ideal landscape
for me became one where one could see through water to what was underneath;
at the same time see the surface of the water because of the light reflections
on that water, and then the changes to the surface from shadows being
cast on the water. My landscapes, while slavishly depicting these effects,
compositionally became more abstract, often having an all-over composition.
In these paintings I like to think of my subject matter as being “nothing”.
It is the “space between”, what you look at when you are not
looking at anything; it is the air not the tree; the light not the landscape;
the background not the subject A painting succeeds for me when it seems
as though the light is emanating from the canvas.
June
1 - 30
Red
Lion Inn
Stockbridge, MA
Entertainment at the Lion's Den
Folk, Irish, Rock, Jazz and more at the Lion's Den every evening. No cover
charge. 9PM (9:30 Weekends)
June
1
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
3PM
June 6 -
8
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
8PM (3PM on the 8th)
June
11 - 22
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Nikos Stage
Williamstown, MA
Beyond Therapy
A chance meeting through a personal ad provides two New Yorkers
with a multitude of topics for their therapy sessions. The lines between
doctor and patient, however, are hilariously blurred. This whacky Christopher
Durang classic delivers a water-splashing, show tune-humming look at the
idiosyncrasies of the heart.
June 13 -
15
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
8PM (3PM on the 15th)
June
13 - August 17
Bennington Museum
Bennington,
VT
“Take Me Out to the
Ball Game”: A Summer of Baseball
This summer baseball comes to Bennington with three wonderful exhibitions
that will bring the history and thrill of America's past time to life.
The triumvirate of exhibitions will be highlighted by a collection of
memorabilia related to Joe DiMaggio, considered by many to be the greatest
player in the history of baseball. Baseball in Vermont will bring things
a little closer to home and explore the history of the game in Vermont
and particularly Bennington. These two exhibits at the Bennington Museum
will be complemented by the art of Mike Schacht, Hall of Fame Baseball
artist, at the Bennington Center for the Arts.
June 20 -
22
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
8PM
June 20 -
22
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
All's Well That Ends Well
One of Shakespeare's "festive" comedies, written soon after
Othello, it's the topsy-turvy tale of an orphan bride in a self-brokered
marriage who can't get her husband to take her love—or her virginity.
As all girls know, losing virginity is as important as keeping it. But
no fear; "Girls just wanna have fun," and Helena is a girl with
a plan. Admission. 3PM (with an 8PM performance on th 21st)
June 20 -
22
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
8PM
June
22 - October 13
Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown,
MA
Through the Seasons: Japanese Art in Nature
This complementary exhibition of dramatic painted screens, delicate hanging scrolls, and contemporary ceramics combine in a dazzling display of the Japanese aesthetic. This inaugural exhibition at Stone Hill Center brings together rarely seen objects from public and many private collections that create connections and dialogues across the centuries.
June
22 - October 19
Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown,
MA
Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of
Painting Softly
Forty beautiful paintings by James McNeill Whistler, George Inness, and other American artists working around 1900 come together for the first time in an examination the art of painting softly. As Whistler once stated, “Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass.” The result of this counsel is a body of contemplative and meditative paintings that, like the mist of breath’s condensation on glass, appear on the canvas without evidence of the artist’s hand.
June 25
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid: Part A
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Rose Footprint Theatre,
along comes a play that'll have you singing with the fish faster than
you can gurgle "Who's Davy Jones and where's his locker?" This
summer, the Rose stage is chock-a-block with pirates, lovers, villains,
square-rigged ships, identical twins, women of ill-repute, utter foolishness,
gun battles, heartbreak, sword fights, three men in a boat, musical numbers,
swashbuckling, redemption, and a real, live mermaid! It's all inspired
by classical mythology, Renaissance imagination and Shakespeare's Romance
plays. Admission. 6:15PM
June 25 -
27
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
All's Well That Ends Well
One of Shakespeare's "festive" comedies, written soon after
Othello, it's the topsy-turvy tale of an orphan bride in a self-brokered
marriage who can't get her husband to take her love—or her virginity.
As all girls know, losing virginity is as important as keeping it. But
no fear; "Girls just wanna have fun," and Helena is a girl with
a plan. Admission. 8PM
June
25 - July 6
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Nikos Stage
Williamstown, MA
The Atheist
Augustine Early is a reporter who will do anything to get his next front-page
story. When shady political dealings whet his appetite for success, the
consequences could be much more than he anticipated, deterring his quest
to catch a pitch-perfect headline.
June 26 -27
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
Prelude
Outdoors on the Prelude Stage near Founders' at 7:15 pm, prior to most
Founders' evening performances. Enjoy a variety of period dances, combat
displays, Shakespearean recitations, Elizabethan music and verse, and
other impromptu delights to prepare your senses for the evening's show.
7:15PM
June 27
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid: Part B
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Rose Footprint Theatre,
along comes a play that'll have you singing with the fish faster than
you can gurgle "Who's Davy Jones and where's his locker?" This
summer, the Rose stage is chock-a-block with pirates, lovers, villains,
square-rigged ships, identical twins, women of ill-repute, utter foolishness,
gun battles, heartbreak, sword fights, three men in a boat, musical numbers,
swashbuckling, redemption, and a real, live mermaid! It's all inspired
by classical mythology, Renaissance imagination and Shakespeare's Romance
plays. Admission. 6:15PM
June
27 - July 12
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Main Stage
Williamstown, MA
She Loves Me
An irresistible tale of two unlikely sweethearts and the quirky
coworkers who surround them, Georg and Amalia work together during the
day and are unaware they are writing to each other anonymously at night.
Hailed by many as one of the most charming musicals ever written, SHE
LOVES ME's quixotic mix of wit and romanticism timelessly invokes the
old-world glamour of days gone by. Admission
June 28
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid: Part A
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Rose Footprint Theatre,
along comes a play that'll have you singing with the fish faster than
you can gurgle "Who's Davy Jones and where's his locker?" This
summer, the Rose stage is chock-a-block with pirates, lovers, villains,
square-rigged ships, identical twins, women of ill-repute, utter foolishness,
gun battles, heartbreak, sword fights, three men in a boat, musical numbers,
swashbuckling, redemption, and a real, live mermaid! It's all inspired
by classical mythology, Renaissance imagination and Shakespeare's Romance
plays. Admission. 1:15PM
June 28
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
Cornets and Summer Stars: Evening Gala
Join us for a special sunset gala, featuring highlights from All's Well
That Ends Well, directed by Tina Packer. Coming together in a joyful evening
of theatre, cocktails and dancing under the stars, you'll see performers
from Shakespeare & Company's professional cast, our Young Company,
and our Riotous Youth participants. All to support Shakespeare & Company's
nationally acclaimed Education Programs. Oh...and also a French dinner
fit for the Countess of Roussillon! Admission. 5:30PM
June 28
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid: Part B
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Rose Footprint Theatre,
along comes a play that'll have you singing with the fish faster than
you can gurgle "Who's Davy Jones and where's his locker?" This
summer, the Rose stage is chock-a-block with pirates, lovers, villains,
square-rigged ships, identical twins, women of ill-repute, utter foolishness,
gun battles, heartbreak, sword fights, three men in a boat, musical numbers,
swashbuckling, redemption, and a real, live mermaid! It's all inspired
by classical mythology, Renaissance imagination and Shakespeare's Romance
plays. Admission. 6:15PM
June 29
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
The Ladies Man
Welcome to the belle époque Paris, when Frenchmen invented savoire
faire and mother-in-laws everywhere were suspicious. Set in Paris at the
turn of the century, it's about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing
mother-in-law suspect him of infidelity, and who gets deeper into his
own soup the more he tries to prove his innocence. The razor fine, saucy
language exemplifies how Feydeau's ear for words and eye for situations
influenced today's comedy. This convoluted story and whip-smart dialogue
show where Noel Coward found his zing and the Marx brothers their zaniness.
If you liked last season's Rough Crossing, you'll love this show! Admission.
8PM
June 29
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
Prelude
Outdoors on the Prelude Stage near Founders' at 7:15 pm, prior to most
Founders' evening performances. Enjoy a variety of period dances, combat
displays, Shakespearean recitations, Elizabethan music and verse, and
other impromptu delights to prepare your senses for the evening's show.
7:15PM
June 29
Shakespeare & Co.
Lenox, MA
All's Well That Ends Well
One of Shakespeare's "festive" comedies, written soon after
Othello, it's the topsy-turvy tale of an orphan bride in a self-brokered
marriage who can't get her husband to take her love—or her virginity.
As all girls know, losing virginity is as important as keeping it. But
no fear; "Girls just wanna have fun," and Helena is a girl with
a plan. Admission. 3PM
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