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MASS MoCA hosts gallery visits with Anais Duplan
Gallery Visits with Anais Duplan

Gallery Visits with Anais Duplan

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
$60 – $200

Join writer Anaїs Duplan for a multi-session, seminar-style series in our galleries to explore the concepts of privilege and power in contemporary art through reading short texts, writing in response to exhibitions, and discussion. This series focuses on exhibitions by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) identifying artists at MASS MoCA, who explore the […]

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Jason Fulford discusses Jason Polan The Post Office at MASS MoCA

Book Talk: Jason Fulford on Jason Polan

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

Jason Polan (1982–2020), famous for his ink sketches in the cult favorite collection Every Person in New York, also had a robust exchange of artwork through the mail with friends, fans, and pen pals (Marcel Dzama, Stefan Marx, Richard McGuire, Rich Jacobs, Alec Soth, Barry McGee, and others). These whimsical drawings and short text works […]

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Enjoy this book launch with the Yiddish Book Center

Book Launch: Adventures of Max Spitzkopf – the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Online

Celebrate the launch of a new translation of Jonas Kreppel’s Adventures of Max Spitzkopf, the complete series of 15 mysteries starring the Viennese “king of detectives,” Max Spitzkopf. Translator Mikhl Yashinsky will share insights into the origins of these stories, how they captivated readers and achieved pulp fiction status, and why they were beloved by figures such as […]

Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event

Clark Art to host lecturer on communication the visually impaired

Clark Art Hosts Jeong Han Kim

Clark Art Institute 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA

The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) hosts a lecture by Jeong Han Kim on The Eye and Mind project and research, which reimagines art appreciation for the visually impaired by developing multisensory methods beyond sight. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

Spirited salon discussion at Ventfort

Spirited Salon Discussion at Ventfort Hall

Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA
$35

Join us for a spirited salon at Ventfort Hall with psychic medium Chelsea Gaia and author Eden Robins (whose novel Remember You Will Die was recently nominated for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize) swap stories from their very different practices and dig into the dilemmas that come with them. How do you honor the dead without exploiting their memory? What […]

Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Performing Arts & Entertainment

Yiddish children's lit curse online

Why Yiddish Children’s Literature Matters Today

Online

Girls on Adventures, Dogs on Strikes: Why Yiddish Children's Literature Matters Today with Miriam Udel is an online course that explores the vibrant world of Yiddish children’s literature, from boys and girls who defy expectations to chickens learning Yiddish and a democracy-loving mutt. Across nearly a thousand books published on four continents in the 20th […]

Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event

Hot Plate book club to reach Buckeye

Hot Plate Community Reads Book Club

Hot Plate Brewing Co. 1 School Street, Pittsfield, MA

The debut novel from the author of short story collections Send Me and The Dream Life of Astronauts is a sweeping post-WWII epic about two families set in a fictional midwestern town in Ohio. Both sweeping and intimate, Buckeye not only examines the shifting American landscape following World War II but also investigates the complexities of the human spirit and goodness […]

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The reflecting pond behind Clark Art

Lecture: Julie Harris at The Clark

Clark Art Institute 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA

The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Julie Harris (Independent Scholar/Clark Fellow) examining French consul Laurent d’Arvieux’s 1683 discovery of a magnificent Hebrew Bible written and illuminated in medieval Iberia three hundred years earlier. The talk takes places in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

Conversation with Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom

Ohan Breiding & Lisa E. Bloom

MASS MoCA 87 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

Sharing an interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and Lisa E. Bloom, author of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Duke University Press, 2022), will discuss Breiding’s multimedia exhibition, Belly of a Glacier, which functions as a moving eulogy for the soon-to-be-extinct Rhône Glacier.

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