PITTSFIELD â A new spread in Conde Nast Traveler seeks to explain, yet again, the Berkshiresâ appeal to well-heeled weekenders.
âItâs the rich cross-history of bohemia and money, of creatives and cultural titans, that makes the Berkshires more than an escape from the city,â the authors write in the magazineâs current issue. âItâs an escape to one of the liveliest and most vital artistic hubs in the USA. ⦠Itâs country living with a symphony orchestra for its soundtrack.â
People who work for low pay in the regionâs cultural centers are singing a different tune. In a new grassroots campaign on Instagram, they share personal testimony, anonymously, about the reality of work life inside museums and theaters.
National Gallery of Art announces new acquisitions
Jean Dughet, after Nicolas Poussin, Baptism, from The Seven Sacraments, c. 1650. Etching with engraving on two sheets of laid paper, 62 × 79.1 cm (24 7/16 × 31 1/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund 2020.102.1
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.-The National Gallery of Art has acquired The Stoning of Saint Stephen (c. 1602) by Aurelio Lomi (15561622), the leading painter in Pisa during the last quarter of the 16th century. It joins two other works by Lomi in the Gallerys collection: a figure study in chalk, Studies of a Youth Pulling Ropes (recto); Faint Study of a Youth Pulling a Rope (verso) (1610s), and a small monochrome bozzetto of the Visitation, a preparatory work for a Florence altarpiece from around 1590.
A summer of galleries filled with vibrant art is once again on the horizon.
And this year, museum officials are confident the upcoming exhibitions â several of which were postponed during 2020 â will happen.
âWe are looking to a brighter and uplifting 2021 and are excited by our eagerly-awaited new feature exhibition, âEnchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration,ââ said Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell Museum Director and CEO, in a recent email. âSeveral years in the making, and postponed from last summer, this exhibition gathers hundreds of works of fantastical art and outlines the history of Fantasy art from its roots in ancient mythological stories to the contemporary illustration of today: think âGame of Thronesâ and âDungeons & Dragons.ââ