Join us this spring for an immersive weekend celebrating the wonder of fungi. From wild foraging adventures and cultivation demonstrations to captivating discussions on psychedelic mushrooms, there is something fascinating for every mushroom enthusiast.
Join us for a scavenger hunt on Saturdays!
Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
The idyllic tranquility of the lives of shepherds became a prominent subject in literature, music, and the visual arts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Pastoral on Paper, explores artistic depictions of rural life by considering their representations of the people and animals who inhabited the landscapes. […]
The Yiddish Book Center will host its annual Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture featuring Aaron Lansky, the Center’s founder and longtime president. In what will be his final public talk as president, Lansky will reflect on the improbable beginnings of the Center, its evolution over 45 years, and his hopes for the future under the direction of […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
Below is a list of summer camps and activities for the Berkshires. This list will be updated as information is received. Berkshire Art Center - 2025 Young Artist Summer Program - registration opens 2/17/25 Berkshire East - Bement Mountain Bike Camp Berkshire Horseworks - Ranch Life 101 - registration opens 2/10/25 Berkshire Museum - Summer […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, School Vacation
This summer, Berkshire Botanical Garden (BBG) will transform into a haven for artistic reverie with DayDream, a new exhibition featuring works by some of the most renowned names in contemporary and modern art. DayDream will run in BBG’s Leonhardt Galleries, inviting visitors to escape the everyday and immerse themselves in the boundless possibilities of the […]
Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, abound in this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, conceived by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie. Over three decades after the duo’s final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took Broadway by storm, this new R&H musical opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
The season kicks off in the Liebowitz Black Box Theater with up-and-coming playwright Maggie Kearnan’s How to Not Save the World with Mr Bezos, presented in association with Boston’s Playwrights Theatre. In How to Not Save the World with Mr Bezos, it’s illegal to be a billionaire, and Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment