Events Calendar
Current Events
Click here for ongoing events.Bach-Circle
Crescendo
December 28, 2024 :
4 PM
Christmas Oratorios and Contemporary Female Voices, Bringing Heaven to Earth…
This program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God), the fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio. This cantata is about the journey of the wise men and the symbolism of light winning over darkness.
This program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God), the fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio. This cantata is about the journey of the wise men and the symbolism of light winning over darkness.
Contact: 860.435.4866
Location: Trinity Church 484 Lime Rock Rd., Lakeville, CT 06039
Bach-Circle
Crescendo
December 29, 2024 :
4 PM
Christmas Oratorios and Contemporary Female Voices, Bringing Heaven to Earth…
This program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God), the fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio. This cantata is about the journey of the wise men and the symbolism of light winning over darkness.
This program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God), the fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio. This cantata is about the journey of the wise men and the symbolism of light winning over darkness.
Contact: 860.435.4866
Location: Saint James Place 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
What Will Have Been
PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
January 11, 2025 :
2PM
Farah Siraj performs original compositions fusing influences of Middle Eastern music, bossa, flamenco, jazz, and pop, with lyrics in Arabic, Spanish, and English
Contact: 518.392.6121
Location: Black Box Theatre 2980 NY-66 Chatham NY 12037
Jim Croce Birthday Bash
Warner Theater
January 12, 2025 :
AJ Croce Presents Croce Plays Croce: The Jim Croce Birthday Bash. Don’t miss your chance to see A.J. Croce celebrate his father’s catalog in this remarkable and unparalleled experience.
Contact: 860.489.7180
Location: 68 Main Street. Torrington. CT. 06790
Annual Free Community Day
MASS MoCA
January 25, 2025 :
10AM – 5PM
Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community celebration rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, workshops, and performances.
Contact: 413.662.2111
Location: 1040 Mass MoCA Way. North Adams MA 01247
Starlight Owl and Wildlife Prowl
The Mount
February 12, 2025 :
6:30PM – 8:30PM
Enjoy a starlit evening listening for owls and other nocturnal wildlife. You'll explore fields, forests, and wetlands, learning about the adaptations of animals that are active at night.
Location: 2 Plunkett Street. Lenox MA 01240.
Billy F Gibbons
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
February 15, 2025 :
8PM
With his signature beard and African headgear, Billy F Gibbons is instantly recognizable and best known as the centerpiece of ZZ Top
Contact: 413.644.9040
Location: 14 Castle Street Great Barrington MA 01230
Spring Benefit:The Orchestra Now & American Ballet Theatre
Fisher Center at Bard College
February 28, 2025 – March 1, 2025 :
Two of New York’s finest artistic training programs join forces as the talented graduate musicians of The Orchestra Now welcome the exceptional dancers of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company to the Fisher Center at Bard for an exhilarating performance of stirring music and beautiful dance.
Contact: 845.758.7900
Location: 60 Manor Ave. Red Hook NY 12571
The Art Heist
Five Points Gallery
June 7, 2025 :
6PM – 8PM
You’re Invited to party and “steal” outstanding artwork by stellar artists to benefit Five Points Arts' exhibitions and education programming. This evening of tomfoolery begins with Thieves, Artists, and Witnesses enjoying hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, entertainment, and the opportunity to “case” the art on display and ends with the great heist. Guests are encouraged to add to the high jinx by dressing in all black!
Contact: 860.618.7222
Location: 33 Main Street. Torrington CT 06790
Ongoing Events
Click here for current events.Rita McBride: Arena Momentum
Dia:Beacon
July 1, 2023 – January 15, 2025 :
This exhibition centers on the artist’s long-standing interest in architecture, design, and sculpture as they relate to the public sphere in forms such as seating structures, movement-guiding systems, and commercial awnings.
Contact: 845.440.0100
Location: Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York
David-Jeremiah:I Drive Thee
Clark Art Institute:
February 10, 2024 – January 6, 2025 :
David-Jeremiah's first institutional solo show outside Texas. This exhibition represents an overview of and conclusion to the artist’s cycle of large circular reliefs, or tondos.
Contact: 413.458.2303
Location: 225 South Street Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
Untitled
Dia:Beacon
April 5, 2024 – May 1, 2025 :
“Untitled” embodies the productive liminality Gonzalez-Torres embraced throughout his practice, refusing fixed meanings or categories and unfolding at the intersection of private and public, interior and exterior, and domestic and institutional.
Contact: 845.440.0100
Location: 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York 12508
Steve McQueen
Dia:Beacon
May 12, 2024 – May 30, 2025 :
For more than 30 years, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has continually investigated the possibilities inherent in film—as a material, a documentary tool, and a storytelling medium—resulting in work that is formally inventive and politically pointed.
Contact: 845.440.0100
Location: 3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508
Letters Home
The Gunn Museum
June 21, 2024 – May 15, 2025 :
Letters and photographs of World War II Army nurse Helen Wersebe.
Contact: 860. 868-7756
Location: 5 Wykeham Road Washington CT 06793
Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor
Norman Rockwell Museum
June 22, 2024 – February 9, 2025 :
Rockwell’s ‘wittiest works’ run concurrently with MAD Magazine exhibition. These thematically linked exhibitions juxtapose and illuminate two strikingly different veins of American humor, from the gently comical to the outrageously satirical.
Contact: 413.931.2221
Location: 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 01262
Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad
MASSMoCA
October 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025 :
re-reads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions.
Contact: 413.662.2111
Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Amy Podmore | Audience
MASSMoCA
October 1, 2024 – November 30, 2025 :
Amy Podmore is propelled by an interest in surrealist strategies of transformation and the line between stillness and motion in sculpture.
Contact: 413.662.2111
Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Like Magic
MASSMoCA
October 1, 2024 – August 31, 2025 :
Like Magic brings together artists who employ technologies of magic to resist systems that attempt to surveil and control people’s lives and stories, often because of their race, ability, sexuality, gender identity, indigeneity, or immigration status.
Contact: 413.662.2111
Location: 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247
Art of the Hills
Berkshire Museum
October 5, 2024 – January 5, 2025 :
Celebrating the rich, creative culture of the region, Art of the Hills is a juried exhibition show highlighting the works of both emerging and established Berkshire-based artists working in all styles and genres. Opening reception will be held on October 5th from 5PM to 8PM.
Contact: 413.443.7171
Location: Berkshire Museum. 39 South Street. Pittsfield MA.
High Kepets: New York Escapes
Craven Contemporary
October 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025 :
Craven Contemporary is excited to present its latest show “New York Escapes” featuring work by Hugh Kepets. The show includes paintings and silkscreen prints created in the 1970s and 1980s of fire escapes and their shadows that are quintessentially New York City. Kepets is inspired by architectural structures and his environment and the focal point of his work embraces transforming simple familiar objects into highly evocative abstractions. The Opening Reception for the artist will be on Saturday, November 2nd from 3PM - 5PM.
Contact: 646.355.8142
Location: 4 Fulling Lane. Kent CT 06757
Local Produce Series
Stissing Center for Arts and Culture
October 20, 2024 – May 18, 2025 :
A unique and exciting series of Staged Readings, bring their creative projects to life with Hudson Valley talent - script in hand.
Contact: 518.771.3340
Location: Pine Plains NY 12567
Homage to the Glacier
The Berkshire Museum
November 2, 2024 – January 5, 2025 :
Homage to the Glacier is a collaborative exhibition showcasing the works of sculptor Peter Bremers and painter Jim Schantz, inspired by a trip the two took to Iceland in 2023. Through their work, the duo glorify these colossal figures, while reminding us of the effect of the world upon them through climate change.
Contact: 413.443.7171
Location: 39 South Street. Pittsfield MA 01201
Call of the Sea: Maritime Art and Navigation
Berkshire Muesum
November 2, 2024 – January 5, 2025 :
Since the earliest days of human civilization, the seas have drawn people from across the world. Both dangerous and alluring, sea travel has long brought different peoples into contact, exchanging goods, ideas, culture, and death.
Contact: 413.443.7171
Location: 39 South Street. Pittsfield MA 01201
Jeffrey Gibson: Power Full Because We're Different
MASS MoCA
November 3, 2024 – December 31, 2024 :
Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation that follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate and provide visibility to queer and Indigenous communities, whose cultural narratives have been historically marginalized. Throughout the run of the exhibition, the project will host a series of performances by Indigenous creatives from across North America.
Contact: 413.662.2111
Location: 1040 MASS MoCA Way. North Adams MA 01247
Original Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage
Norman Rockewell Museum
November 9, 2024 – May 26, 2025 :
Original Sisters is a series of portraits that reveals and honors the contributions of history-making women. To create the series, award-winning illustrator Anita Kunz carefully researched, wrote about, and portrayed each subject to establish a more complete picture. Her portraits present famed and lesser-known women in the fields of art, science, technology and invention, education, history, and politics, offering a needed expansion and revision of the historical record. The Opening Reception is on November 9th at 5PM.
Contact: 413.298.4100
Location: 9 Glendale Road. Stockbridge MA 01262
Anita Kunz: Original Sisters
Norman Rockwell Museum
November 9, 2024 – May 26, 2025 :
Portraits of Tenacity and Courage. A stunning series of portraits by internationally acclaimed illustrator Anita Kunz. These portraits honor contemporary and historical women—both noted and little-known—who have made important contributions to art, science, technology, history, politics, education, and more.
Contact: 413.931.2221
Location: 9 Route 183 Stockbridge MA 01262
Victor Mirabelli | Through Layers
Argazzi Art
November 9, 2024 – December 29, 2024 :
Reception for the Artist on Saturday, November 9, 3-5PM
Contact: 860.435.8222
Location: 22 Millerton Road Route 44 Lakeville CT 06039
NightWood
The Mount
November 22, 2024 – January 4, 2025 :
Come on a fantastical journey through the forest and gardens of Edith Wharton's Estate where dramatic lighting and an atmospheric sound track evoke wonder and delight the imagination. As you wander the illuminated 1-mile route, you will enounter unique scenes that celebrate the vast splendor and mystery of our natural world. Afterwards, enjoy hot chocolate and cider (children and adult versions!), treats, and more in the Mansion courtyard.
Contact: 413.551.5100
Location: 2 Plunkett Street. Lenox MA 01240
Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable
Clark Art Institute
November 23, 2024 – February 17, 2025 :
“It is exciting to see the ways in which Abelardo Morell breathes new life into scenes that have become so closely associated with the works of artists who lived more than a century before him. The unique marriage of three artists’ perspectives—working generations apart—to create something that is utterly new is brilliant,
Contact: 413.458.2303
Location: 225 South Street. Williamstown MA 01267
Illustrators of Light
Norman Rockwell Museum
November 23, 2024 – January 4, 2025 :
The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace. Opening reception on December 6th at 5PM and Curator tour on December 21st at 11:30AM.
Contact: 413.298.4100
Location: 9 Glendale Road. Stockbridge MA 01262
Happy Hour Piano Series
American Mural Project
November 29, 2024 – March 28, 2025 :
5PM – 7PM
Each month, the Happy Hour Piano Series offers an eclectic mix of musical genres, showcasing the region’s wealth of talented pianists. Held on the fourth Fridays, from 5 to 7 pm, the piano series extends AMP’s exhibit hours.
Contact: 845.266.4444
Location: 74 Whiting Street. Winsted CT 06098
Radiant Lights
Hancock Shaker Village
December 7, 2024 – December 31, 2024 :
Hancock Shaker's signature winter event is back with its unique, multisensory holiday experience Radiant Nights. The Village will once again sparkle with dazzling video projections, enchanting music, farm animals, festive food and spirits, crafts, and holiday fun for the entire family.
Contact: 413.443.0188
Location: 1843 West Housatonic Street. Pittsfield MA 01201
A Space Between Worlds
The Wassaic Project
December 7, 2024 – March 15, 2025 :
Wassaic Project's winter show--A Space Between Worlds--features nine artists creating new worlds on each of Maxon Mills’ seven floors. Opening reception on Saturday, December 7th from 3-5PM.
Contact: 855.WASSAIC
Location: Maxon Mills. 37 Furnace Bank Road. Wassaic NY 12592
Inside for the Winter
Kenise Barnes Fine Art
December 7, 2024 – January 26, 2025 :
It is December and we have moved inside for the winter. This group exhibition features work from the gallery's established roster of artists. Public reception on Saturday, December 7th, 4PM - 6PM.
Contact: 860.592.0220
Location: 7 Fulling Lane. Kent CT 06757.
Wall Power! Modern French Tapestry
Clark Art Institute
December 14, 2024 – March 9, 2025 :
Drawn from the celebrated collection of the Mobilier national from the 1940s to the present day, this exhibition explores the resurgence of the ancient French tradition of tapestry-making, including works by Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, and Kiki Smith. Opening lecture is on Saturday, December 14th from 11AM - 12PM.
Contact: 413.458.2303
Location: 225 South Street. Williamstown MA 01267
A Christmas Carol
Sharon Playhouse
December 18, 2024 – December 22, 2024 :
A highly inventive adaptation of this classic––in this version, we encounter a company of traveling players about to enact the Dickens story. As this ragtag group embraces their parts, they transport audiences into the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, capturing the story’s heartwarming themes of redemption and holiday cheer.
Contact: 860.364.7469
Location: 49 Amenia Road. Sharon CT 06069