Photo: David Cicconi
Thanks in part to the largesse of their alumni, the area’s colleges (Amherst, Williams, Smith, and Mount Holyoke) have remarkable museums that have helped turn this community of former mill towns and working farms into a thriving arts destination.
Read the articleDestinations: North Adams · Berkshires · Amherst · Northampton · Williamstown
Themes: Arts + Culture
Inspired by: The Berkshires’ Best Art Museums — by Gabriella De Ferrari, Published Sep. 2008
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The 80-year-old hotel is set in a Colonial Revival building in the center of town.
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Paint-by-number pictures adorn the 47 retro rooms at Porches Inn. The string of dignified old Victorian row houses that provided homes for foremen of
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This MASS MoCA restaurant is one of the best museum eateries.
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The Tibetan restaurant serves yak that is spicy and tender. Order yours with a glass of robust Cabernet.
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The campus museum boasts 10 galleries dedicated to Asian, Renaissance, and contemporary art.
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At the entrance satnad Eyes (2001), massive gray marble slabs with round, watchful eyes perched on top, by phenomenal Paris-born sculptor Louise Bourg
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The institution is known as a compact bastion of American treasures - Robert Henri's Salome (1909) is housed here. The museum has recently acquired a
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The concrete box, designed by architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo in 1975, contains a concert hall and a little-known contemporary art gallery.
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A large majority of the artworks here are gifts of alumnae - many of whom started donating their prized posessions in the early 1900's. The building's
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Art and architecture buffs have a new reason to head to the Berkshires this summer: the Stone Hill Center, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando
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Amherst, Northampton
This 1,100-square-mile patchwork of farms, orchards, and rolling hills has lured free- spirited artists and literati for decades—but never has it enjoyed the cultural richness that it does now.
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It is the purity of Shaker ingenuity that really makes an impression. The quality of their products combined with the uniquely strange nature of Shaker worship services—the Shakers of the 1700's shook...
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