October 5 and 6, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - MOMIX: Baseball
HUNTER CENTER , North Adams, MA.
Friday October 5 8pm
Saturday October 6 2pm
Saturday October 6 8pm
Come see a playful, witty dance tribute to America's favorite pastime, baseball. Nobody bends, moves, contorts, balances and creates quite like MOMIX. Athletic, humorous, and remarkably stunning, Moses Pendleton's brilliant company is renowned for its astounding dance/illusions. This ode to the boys of summer transports audiences to a world of fantasy, using a combination of beautiful athletic movements, magical lighting, riveting music and extraordinary costuming. Like some madcap day at the park, anything can happen in Baseball -- cave-dwellers invent the game with a rock and a tree trunk; God-as-baseball-commissioner gives orders from on high; life-sized beer cans perform a delicate ballet on pointe; and a frightened baseball on roller skates tries to escape those who would like to send it over the fence. Performed to the music of soul singer James Brown, the rock band Queen, and the Brazilian rhythms of Gabrielle Roth, among others, this is a bases-loaded-home-run-hit.
Tickets: $34 orch, $29 mezz, $24 student
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, October 6, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - IN CONVERSATION with MOMIX
B-10 Theater , North Adams, MA.
6pm
Look behind the illusions of MOMIX in a pre-curtain dialogue with the players of this astounding dance ensemble.
Tickets: $5
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

October 6 and 7, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
67th Annual Harvest Festival
Stockbridge, MA
The Berkshires oldest and best known community event. An old-fashioned, family-oriented festival with something for everyone: rides, games, food, music, crafts and more.

Saturday October 13, 2001
MASS MoCA
Dance Parties - AfroPop Dance Party
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
8pm
Let the African drumbeats take over your senses as master drummer Obo Addy and his band of accomplished Worldbeat musicians bring the rhythms of Ghana to North Adams. Obo Addy fuses the traditional rhythms of his homeland with American jazz and European pop. Authentic African dinner will be available throughout the evening.
Tickets: $12 ADULTS, $6 KIDS
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

October 19 and 20, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions -Bang on a Can All-Stars: Shadow Bang
HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
8pm
A grand musical theater work with ancient roots. Visually stunning and delightful, Shadow Bang brings together the electrifying and eclectic Bang on a Can All-Stars and I Wayan Wija, the foremost living Balinese puppet master. Together they create a world of larger-than-life shadows and elaborate theatrical forms that take you on a magical journey with light, shadow, and music. Seven performers synthesize the imaginary and the everyday, the traditional and the avant-garde, the East and the West. To compliment the evening, Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform new work by composers Brian Eno and Oscar-nominated Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
Tickets: $28 orch, $24 mezz, $20 student
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

Saturday, October 20, 2001
MASS MoCA
Main Stage Productions - IN CONVERSATION with the creators of Shadow Bang
B-10 Theater, North Adams, MA.
6pm
A pre-curtain dialogue with the collaborators
Tickets: $5
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

OCTOBER 26 - 28, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
The Halloween Benefit: The Turn of the Screw
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
FOUNDERS' THEATRE
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James
directed by Dave Demke
"the best stories always begin in the garden "
Shakespeare & Company's new Halloween Benefit moves to the (haunted?) Founders' Theatre complete with an interlude that includes hot apple cider, doughnuts, and Henry James' chilling masterpiece adapted for two actors.

A repressed 19th century governess stumbles into her own garden of evil and does battle with the phantoms that have fastened themselves to the children in her care. She is haunted by one vision, the children by another. But you will be haunted by both.

Wednesday, October 31, 2001
MASS MoCA
Dance Parties - Day of the Dead Fiesta
CONCERT COURTYARD D or THE HUNTER CENTER, North Adams, MA.
8pm
Celebrate the witching season at MASS MoCA! Feast on Mexican food and two-step to the accordion of Santiago Jimenez Jr., a Grammy-winning Tex-Mex squeeze-box master. Santiago's jam will bring life to this mystical celebration of the dead with his infectious mix of corridos, polkas, and boleros.
Tickets: $12 ADULTS, $6 KIDS
To purchase tickets call 413.662.2111

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

June 9 through October 8, 2001
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
NORMAN ROCKWELL: PICTURES FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
This major national touring exhibition, co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge returns to Stockbridge before completing its seven city, coast-to-coast tour at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The exhibition includes more than 70 oil paintings from the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum, other museums, and private collectors.

This exhibition and its national tour are made possible by the Ford Motor Company. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Curtis Publishing Company and the Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Company. Education programs for the national tour are made possible by Fidelity Investments through the Fidelity Foundation.

SEPTEMBER 7 to OCTOBER 21, 2001
Shakespeare & Company
A Tanglewood Tale
70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA
SPRING LAWN THEATRE
the World Premiere by Juliane Glantz and Stephen Glantz
directed by Michael Hammond
"When the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning."
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby-Dick, Shakespeare & Company introduces a fascinating and daring World Premiere that peers into the relationship between Melville and his dearest friend at the time of the book's release, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In 1851 both Melville and Hawthorne found themselves and their families in virtual exile in the Berkshires — Melville at Arrowhead, Hawthorne at Tanglewood.

In many ways the two men could not have been more dissimilar: Melville the pagan rabble-rouser; Hawthorne, the reclusive puritan. And yet they quickly recognized in one another a kindred spirit. But as this new play suggests, the dissimilarities may have prevailed in the end. Although the men relied on one another for inspiration (Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to Hawthorne), Melville's last letters to his friend were fraught with the torment of a sudden and unexplained estrangement.

What was the true nature of their relationship? Would Moby-Dick ever have been completed without Hawthorne to "mentor" Melville? Don't miss this intriguing exploration in the new Spring Lawn Theatre — overlooking Tanglewood and located just down the road from Arrowhead with its view of Mount Greylock, Melville's inspirational "mountain of a whale."

September 10 to October 19, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
SARAH RENTZ and NANCY GOODPASTER juried by Flood Adams., Santa Fe, N.M
public reception: September 14 at 8 pm

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