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  • Contemporary Artists Center Nixes North Adams Development

    After 17 Years CAC Plans Relocation to Troy, New York

    By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 11th, 2007

    Negotiations for the Contemporary Artists Center to develop a permanent home in the former Notre Dame church property in North Adams ended in acrimony and finger pointing. It is a serious loss and set back for an emerging but struggling arts community.

  • The Berkshire Fine Arts Holiday Preview

    Check Over Our List of Events, Both Naughty and Nice

    By: Larry Murray - Nov 13th, 2007

    The array of holiday treats taking place in the Berkshires has grown, and is more eclectic than ever.

  • Mass MoCA Starts Cleaning Up the Buchel Mess

    Making Way for the Jenny Holzer Installation To Open on November 17

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 25th, 2007

    In reponse to Friday's Federal Court decision in favor of Mass MoCA the artist Christoph Buchel filed an appeal. But today the museum has announced that it will trash the unfinished work immediately to make way for an installation by Jenny Holzer to open as soon as possible.

  • Judge Allows Mass MoCA's Unfinished Buchel Show

    Costly Victory for North Adams Museum

    By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 22nd, 2007

    Originally scheduled to open last December Federal Judge Michael A. Posner ruled yesterday that Mass MoCA may indeed open the unfinished exhibition of Christoph Buchel in its largest gallery. Did the museum simply prevail in a no win situation? The jury is still out.

  • Tangled Wood Tales

    Tanglewood Past, Present and Future

    By: Larry Murray - Sep 06th, 2007

    The volunteers, the deficits, the sniping from the sidelines: You have to expect it when you are biggest target. The BSO's Berkshire summer of 2007 lends itself to parody, speculation and reminiscences.

  • Berkshire Fall Arts Preview 2007

    Theater - Dance - Music - Film - Visual Arts

    By: Larry Murray - Sep 01st, 2007

    An eclectic array of possibilities makes this the richest Fall arts season yet.

  • Governor Deval Patrick Visits Pittsfield

    Open Meeting with Berkshire Arts and Culture Leaders

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 13th, 2007

    Julianne Boyd hosted an open meeting in her Barrington Stage Company theatre in Pittsfield between arts leaders and Deval Patrick, the first Democrat Governor of Massachusetts in far too long.

  • Critical Mess2

    How and Why We Write

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 23rd, 2007

    More response to the collection of essays "Critical Mess: Art critics and the state of their practice." And a reply to a Peter Plagens piece on critical writing in the February, 2007 issue of Art in America.

  • Feeling Listless: Annual Awards

    A Critic's Apathy

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 05th, 2007

    Overcome by ennui at the prospect of coming up with that annual best and worst list.

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