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268. Part I : A Travel Log: From Bosco to Lip Plumper

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It’s an annual trek to the Berkshires, the mountains of Massachusetts, where culture thrives. A few hours drive to an uncrowded world dense with creativity, where I feel I get spiritually refreshed through art and nature. It’s worth it. But first, some fluff… 1.On our way to our first stop in Hadley, MA, we dipped into Vermont to get an up close view of The (famous) Vermont Country Store, where time has appeared to have stood still. You can wax nostalgic, rhapsodic, or however you wish over those perfumes you used to find at Woolworth’s in the ’50’s (Evening in … Continue reading →

271. Travel Part 4: Art for Sunday: On to North Adams, MA: Mass MoCA: What’s new in contemporary art

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Part A – From last year’s post on North Adam’s MA, to give you a little background. Saturday July 7, 2007 Our annual trek to the Berkshire Mountains. North Adams, MA We love it this area of Massachusetts; it is a juxtaposition of blue collar and culture. North Adams was a mill town, like many other towns situated near canals. In the 1800’s factories sprung up near water which enabled transit of materials and goods. In the 1980’s the Sprague Electric Works was shut down and deemed a contaminated site.The company was housed in a 19th century mill which stood … Continue reading →

275. For Poetry Wed:Travel Part 5: Mass MoCA: from Art to Music: Abena Koomson

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I had no idea who Abena Koomson was when we got tickets for the Saturday night show. This young woman is a New Yorker who will be starring in an off-Broadway show. She is a poet, songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor. I think you’ll be hearing about this young lady soon. I was particularly amazed by the power of her words; her presence and recitations were masterful, unselfconscious and well beyond her years. Check out her CD, too. Abena autographing her CD, which I was most happy to purchase. Photo/Sans Souci The bio from ALT CABARET, given at the show: Abena … Continue reading →

277. Songs for Saturday, Art for Sunday:Travel: Part 6: Williamstown: The Clark Institute: Art and Music

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In my pictures there is no cleverness, no brush marks, nothing to astonish or bewilder, but simply a gradual, more perfect growth of beauty–it is this beauty my canvases reveal, not the way it is obtained. ~James McNeill Whistler “When considering modernist painting in the decades around 1900, we generally think of expressive, virtuosic brushwork that clearly reveals the presence of the artist. Yet its quieter and formally more subtle style of painting ran throughout the period, and this is the focus of Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly. “Paint should not be applied … Continue reading →

51. Part I Music, Art, and Dusty Books: a travelogue

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Saturday July 7, 2007 Our annual trek to the Berkshire Mountains. North Adams, MA We love it this area of Massachusetts; it is a juxtaposition of blue collar and culture. North Adams was a mill town, like many other towns situated near canals. In the 1800’s factories sprung up near water which enabled transit of materials and goods. In the 1980’s the Sprague Electric Works was shut down and deemed a contaminated site.The company was housed in a 19th century mill which stood idle until it was resurrected in 1999 as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, or MASS MoCA.The … Continue reading →

52. Part 2: Music, Art, and Dusty Books: a travelogue

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Monday, July 9, 2007 MASS MoCA: One of my favorite artists was Spencer Finch: It is easier to include the article from the website as it is well written and explains the artist and his work. As always, there are several artists who I latch on to, who I feel and experience at a gut level. They are the avant-garde crowd who see the world in a different way; who provoke, who push, who tease us into thinking beyond our parameters. About Spencer Finch Finch was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962. He received a degree in comparative literature … Continue reading →

53. Part 3: Glacial Potholes, Vintage Cars, Yiddish Books: a travelogue

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A short ride into Vermont; we make our annual visit to Hemmings Motor NewsFilling Station.Vintage cars are the thing here, and all kind of car memorabilia abound.My kind of 50’s and 60’s music is pumping. I take a walk on the treadmill at the fitness center, back at The Porches and then get a massage, which was part of the hotel package.Nice, very nice. As my mother would say, “So what could be bad?” Wednesday, July 11, 2007 We leave North Adams and go to Hadley, MA., which is central to several Universities; Mt. Holyoke, Smith, U Mass, Hampshire College, … Continue reading →

5. Poetry: Birthing at Bocuse

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My panic attack in a 5-star restaurant in Lyons.original post 4/13/07 ART&Poetry by author Before our son was born, and because we were teachers and had the time, my husband and I traveled extensively through Europe. Nine summers. I could say, “filler-up” in French,Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish; but don’t ask me to now. That part of my brain has become a gray viscous puddle.As much as I enjoyed my travels through France, I was always under stress. I studied French for eight years, read the classics, blah, blah, or as Seinfeld would say, “yadda, yadda, yadda,” I would drag old … Continue reading →