with Ken Johnson’s review of Holzer’s PROJECTIONS in today’s NY Times.

Our good friend Valerie Schwarz who runs the Berkshire Food Project in North Adams (and ushers at our events in her “spare” time) is looking for donations of holiday cookies for BFP. Cookies are needed on the morning of Wednesday, December 19 and can be delivered to the Berkshire Food Project at the First Congregational Church in North Adams 10 Main Street. If you have questions email berkshirefood@hotmail.com

As of December 20 we’ll have a portion of our upcoming exhibition Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China installed and ready to view.  The whole exhibition will be open starting February 3.

Artists in this initial part include:

Oliver Lyons and Alexis Raskin
David Cotterrell
Roma Pas
Tobias Bernstrup
Walter McConnel
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla

The New York Times series “Choking on Growth” is great background for the exhibition.

Cotterrell’s work is pictured above.

Cate McQuaid calls the Kiefer exhibition “brief and bracing”. Read more in the Boston Globe

If you loved Hamilton’s corpus or if you’re curious about past exhibitions in Building 5, check out this beautiful video on Ann’s site.

Sarah Biagini and Aimee Buyea from our performing arts department have launched A is for AMAZING, a film and experimental video series which will provide Berkshire audiences with access to films that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to see. Their first program XXX-Mas Movies: eXploring seXuality through eXperimental film will be at Images Cinema in Williamstown at 9 PM on Sunday, December 2, 2007.