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May 2008

November 10, 2007 - May 28, 2008
Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, MA
LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel
A burgeoning art form with roots planted firmly in history, graphic novels, or long-form comic books, have inspired the interest of the literary establishment and a growing number of readers. For today's aficionados, graphic novels, with their antiheroes and visual appeal, are positioned to usurp the role that the novel once played. Focused on subjects as diverse as the nature of relationships, the perils of war, and the meaning of life, graphic novels now comprise the fastest-growing sections of many bookstores�an accessible, vernacular art form with mass appeal. This comprehensive exhibition explores the history and diverse artistry of the graphic novel, featuring personal commentary and artworks by celebrated historic and contemporary practitioners. Original book pages and studies, sketchbooks, and video interviews provide insights into an evolving and exciting art form. Artworks by Jessica Abel, Sue Coe, R. Crumb, Howard Cruse, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Brian Fies, Gerhard, Milt Gross, Marc Hempel, Niko Henrichon, Mark Kalesniko, Peter Kuper, Harvey Kurtzman, Matt Madden, Frans Masereel, Frank Miller, Terry Moore, Dave Sim, Art Spiegelman, Lynd Ward, Lauren Weinstein, Mark Wheatley, Barron Storey and others will be on view.

February 17 - May 4
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Remington Looking West
From the 1890s until his death in 1909, Frederic Remington created paintings, sculptures, illustrations, and writings that offered a compelling and vivid portrayal of the Wild West. His images of dramatic horsemanship, frontier warfare, and bushwhacking adventure, set against a vast and foreboding landscape, captured the popular imagination. Filling his scenes with detail, Remington strove to maintain the appearance of historical accuracy and firsthand experience.

February 27 - May 21
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Library Installation: A Photographic Look at the New American West
The landscape of the American West has long been a subject for photographers. The advent of photography in the mid-nineteenth century and the development of easier methods of photographic reproduction corresponded with the western expansion of the nation. Photographic documentation augmented the reports issued as part of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories and photography was capturing the wondrous archaeological discoveries being made, as well as capturing the vestiges of American Indian culture. Civic boosters, hotel resorts, and railway lines were using photography in promotional material to woo visitors to the western states. Mon-Fri, 10AM - 5PM

March 13 - May 4
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Exhibition: Simon and Herta Moselsio
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of Bennington College with paintings and sculpture by early professors Simon and Herta Moselsio.

March 22 - May 3
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Local Artist Program: Jack Metzger
Jack Metzger creates photographs and sculptures from interesting old found objects. He allows the beauty of these seemingly mundane objects to speak through the ages. Whether it be one of his photographs of an old bottle cap, a group of broken glass bottles arranged on the tines of an ancient pitch fork, or even a carved outhouse seat mounted on the wall as sculpture, Jack has the ability to bring out the “art” in just about anything.

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 1 - 31
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)

May 9 - 12
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
Galleries in Bloom
The Berkshire Museum is pleased to collaborate with the Garden Club of America to present more than 40 beautiful floral arrangements inspired by art and artifacts throughout the Berkshire Museum. Stunning arrangements by Garden Club of America professionals and talented Berkshire designers fill the galleries. All proceeds from Galleries in Bloombenefit year-round educational programming at the Berkshire Museum. Experience floral displays inspired by the diverse objects in What’s the Story (sponsored by TD Banknorth), American paintings in America Seen, extraordinary Native American pieces in Native Peoples: Northeast-Northwest, artifacts from Egypt and other ancient cultures, and the new Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation. Selected arrangements will complement the aquarium and natural science collections. Plus,see floral photography from a national judging workshop of the Garden Club of America.
Admission.

May 10
Aston Magna
St. James Church
Great Barrington
Music of Purcell and Handel
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano, Daniel Stepner, baroque violin, Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba, John Gibbons, harpsichord Admission. 6PM

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.

May 23 - 25
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 with a Sunday 3PM Matinee.

May 29 - 31
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