If you love Denise Markonish’s new exhibition Badlands, you’ll find plenty more of her curatorial talents to love around the region this summer. Here’s the roster of exhibitions she’s curated this summer:

• Cultivate (a companion exhibition to Badlands) at Berkshire Botanical Garden opens June 8
• In the Zone II through August 3 at Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, Vermont
• The Medium is the Message at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz which opens June 7
• AND the Fence Show at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy opens June 14

Those of us for whom a super-productive weekend  means getting rid of 2007 New Yorkers and replacing the paper towels in the kitchen are awed by Denise’s productivity and salute her success.

Congratulations to Ginger Strand whose new book, Inventing Niagara, was picked as one of summer’s best non-fiction books by Fresh Air. We’re basking in the reflected glory as Ginger’s other summer writing includes one of the essays in our Badlands catalog. Its a great read and the cover design is really cool too.

We’re so lucky to have friends like Leslie Ferrin (of Pittsfield’s Ferrin Gallery) who comes to the Badlands opening, takes  great photos,  and posts them on wonderful blogs like Rural Intelligence. It was a beautiful night and our first outing under the Wapenaar Pavilion for the season.

You’ll find more photos and coverage at The Pit and Berkshire Fine Arts will likely post something soon.

The wonderful Lex Leifheit interviews Joseph Smolinski about his Tree Turbine installation, part of Badlands opening May 24. The interview was broadcast on WESU but through the wonders of modern technology, you can hear it for yourself by visiting Lex’s blog.

Meisha Rosenburg reviews Holzer in this week’s Metroland. What do you think about this show?

Tune in at 7:30 tonight to WCVB out of Boston to see MASS MoCA in all its glory as part of an episode of Chronicle on “Tank Away” getaways. They’ll go whitewater rafting on the Deerfield River then talk about Porches and MASS MoCA.