December 1 and 2, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Holiday Marketplace
Stockbridge, MA
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. each day
Exhibition and sale of handcrafted wreaths and holiday decorations, seasonal plants, herb products, crafts and gift items. Part of town-wide Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas celebration.

ONGOING

September 2, 2000 through January 27, 2002
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post Covers
Back by popular demand, this archival exhibition shows all 322 covers Norman Rockwell illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post. From his first cover at the age of 22, to his last in 1963, Rockwell's work for The Saturday Evening Post charmed and delighted audiences. Rockwell's covers for the Post were so popular that, when a Rockwell illustration appeared on the cover, hundreds of thousands of magazines were added to the print run to handle the increased demand.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 413-298-4100, ext. 220

October 29 to December 7, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
CRAIG SCOFFONE juried by Flood Adams, Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: November 2, 2001 at 8 pm

March 17 to December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Stones of Assyria: Ancient Spirits from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Two of the first objects to enter the Williams College Museum of Art's collection are re-examined in an installation that investigates their original function and location in a 7th c. BC palace in Iraq and the fascinating 19th century story of how they ended up at a small New England college. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections; Barbara Robertson, Director of Education; and Elyse Gonzales, MA '00.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- A Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt
To launch its 75th anniversary year, the Williams College Museum of Art invited renowned, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to create a wall drawing for the museum's atrium. Consistent with the artist's belief that the concept and not the execution is the most important aspect of a work of art, a representative from his studio along with three Williams College students created the 33-foot high painting according to a set of LeWitt's site-specific plans. For two weeks in January 2001 visitors watched Uneven Bands from the Upper Right Corner take form from beginning stages to finished work. The completed wall drawing in red, blue, yellow, purple, green, and orange is on view through December 2001.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- American Pop
In their efforts to explore the aesthetics of mass culture, American Pop artists produced an enormous body of art in a variety of media. This exhibition includes 16 images -- paintings and works on paper -- by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Johns, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Ruscha in which the viewer confronts the clash of high art, painterly values, and the mundane commercial world. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Masterpieces Ancient to Modern
Celebrating WCMA's 75 years of dedication to teaching and learning about art, this exhibition provides an interesting and informative survey of the breadth and strengths of the College Museum's holdings. It reveals the complicated story of the evolution of this unique museum, shaped by individual directors and curators, changing philosophies of taste and the results of just plain chance. The painting, sculpture and work on paper selected from the over 12,000 objects in the collection will offer fresh insight and perspective to the multiplicity of forms, historic periods, individual expressions and diverse world cultures. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection
Approaching the museum's permanent collection from the artist's perspective two Williams College studio faculty members, select works that exemplify the process and temporality specific to the printmaking medium. Artists including Francisco Goya, Alberto Giacometti, Judy Pfaff, Roger Brown, and Joyce Neimanas explore a variety of techniques from traditional lithography and etching to serigraph, monoprint, silkscreen, inkjet, and photogravure. Organized by Barbara Takenaga, Professor of Art, Frank Jackson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, and Lisa Dorin, Curatorial Assistant.

Throughout 2001
Buggy Whip Factory
Buggy Whip Factory opens historic exhibit
Southfield, MA
The museum, free and open to the public, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Thursday through Monday. It will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday until May 1.

The Buggy Whip Factory, a 20,000- square-foot complex in the Southfield section of the town now occupied by about 60 antiques dealers and craftsmen, has opened a permanent historic exhibition to honor and document the "whip shop's" 200 years of achievement.

The Turner & Cook Whip Manufactory got its start in 1791 as a small tanning operation. It grew into a large enterprise at its present site, specializing first in rawhide whip cores. Then, as the demand for buggy whips faded, belt pins and rawhide mallets became the focus until the shop ceased operation.
For more info call (413) 229-3576