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1 week ago | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Alan Smason |Charles Giuliano
Edward Rubin, an iconoclastic theatre critic, arts critic and curator, who wrote for decades about theatre and the visual arts, died after a protracted battle with bladder cancer at Calvary Hospital on June 15, 2025. He was 84. Rubin, who went by the nickname “Fast Eddy” was a long-standing member of the New York Drama Desk, the Outer Critics Circle and a longtime member of the American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association (ATCA).
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
For The Love of Art HistoryYoung Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025Cynthia Corbett GalleryLondonJanuary 16 to April 8https://www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.comNorth Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Kelsey ShultisBorn 1988. USAKelsey Shultis creates sculptural paintings to explore and develop the parts of herself she doesn't yet know, inviting the viewer along on her journey.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
One of the elements of understanding the artist Katherine Porter was tracking her many moves and motivations. It’s the kind of personal detail that is left out of the writing of critics and most art historians. As an artist and friend Kathy was layered, mercurial and complex. It was the frentic edge that informed the work and defined her concerns for equity and social justice. Part of that was reflected by a constant search for a supportive community.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
The modernist Umberto Romano (1906-1982) is the subject of a retrospective, curated by Martha Oaks, at the annex of the Cape Ann museum through December 29, 2024. The main museum is closed for renovation. The exhibition is free to the public in the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, which was completed in 2020. It includes 2,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and community programming space.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
“ELLIPTICALS” is a solo show of recent en plein air landscape paintings by Alvin Ouellet at IMAGES CINEMA in Williamstown, MA from December 2nd through December 31st, 2024. Alvin Ouellet is an artist based in Adams, MA. His recent works were created and are on display at various locations throughout the Berkshires. Now retired from Mass College of Art he relocated to the Berkshires. Since then he has taken full advantage of depicting cityscapes.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
We viewed the stunning 2017 retrospective “Salvatore Del Deo: A Storied History” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. In 2023, then 95, he was the subject of national news when there was an attempt to evict the renowned artist and chef from his historic summer Provincetown dune shack. In the 1980s I first interviewed Sal who, with Ciro Cozzi (1921-2013), started a sandwich shop which expanded into the most renowned of Provincetown’s many storied restaurants, the still running Ciro and Sal’s.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
Gabrielle Barzaghi and Susan EronyMatthew Swift GalleryGloucester, Mass. Through November 7, 2024Through the early decades of the 20th century generations of America’s renowned artists lived and worked on Cape Ann. Feeling rejected and ignored the most progressive artists, including Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, departed in despair.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
Diddy By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 14, 2024 Diddy Diddy or didn’t he Fiddle and dribble Or diddle and fibble Who’s to say Languishing in slammer Face the music Mogul's melody Bling’s in bloom Lap dance of luxury Fine young things Hooch and koochie Man oh man Look at me now Hey Ma I’m sitting on top Of the world Boom boom room Dom Perignon For one and all Sated entourage Yo y’all Do yah thang On me man Workin' on the Chain gang © 2006-2024 Berkshire Fine Arts The opinions expressed are those of...
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Charles Giuliano
Some Assembly RequiredRichard Criddle and Joanna KlainEclipse Mill Gallery243 Union StreetNorth Adams, Mass. October 3 to 30, 2024Walking into the Eclipse Mill Gallery has the visual equivalent of pow in the kisser. On the walls are 17 intimately scaled, collaged, acrylic paintings by Joanna Klain. The space of the gallery is chock-a-block, gob smacked with multi media, assembled metal sculptures by Richard Criddle. The initial overwhelming impact is that the artists could not be more dissimilar.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
berkshirefinearts.com | Conor McPherson |Charles Giuliano
The WeirBy Conor McPhersonDirected by Eric HillScenic designer, Randall Parsons; Costumes, Amy Avila; Lighting, Matthew E. Adelson, Composer and sound, Scott Killian; Resident dialect coach, Jennifer Scapetis; Movement support, Isadora Wolfe. Cast: Jack (Sean Bridgers), Jim (Joey Collins), Valerie (Stephanie Jean Lane), Finbar (Harry Smith), Brendan (Philip Themio Stoddard). Berkshire Theatre GroupUnicorn TheatreSeptember 26 to October 27Stockbridge, Mass.
