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Northampton, MA 01060
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northampton, massachusetts october 11, 12 & 13, 2008
There's Always Something Happening in Northampton!
From performances and music to great shopping and yummy new restaurants,
the streets truly come alive this Columbus Day Weekend.
This short sampling of notable offerings is sure to enhance your visit
to the Paradise City Arts Festival. For complete information about what to do
and where to go around the Valley, check out
www.explorenorthampton.com
and www.valleyvisitor.com.
Read more about Northampton, 'New England's Artful Destination', and its many year-round visitor attractions. (PDF, 900K)
(Information on this page is from our October 2008 show.)
Walk the Walk
Take the 'artwalk' starting from the beautiful Smith College Museum of
Art, one of America's foremost college art museums, along the swooping curve of
Main Street. You'll pass fine craft galleries specializing in blown glass, jewelry,
ceramics or wearable art. Stroll into art galleries featuring contemporary
realist paintings, bronze sculpture and expressionist landscapes by regional
and national artists.
Look out for the 'WINDOWspace' project, an
innovative use of empty storefronts to exhibit visual art, video and film,
installation and performance.
Robert Altman Film Festival
The Northampton Arts Council
and Treasure Film present 'A Robert Altman Tribute Festival' all Columbus Day Weekend,
October 10th through 13th. Enjoy the films Nashville, MASH, McCabe
and Mrs. Miller, and seven others by this great
American filmmaker who gave us so many reasons to keep
going to the movies.
The Festival takes place at the historic, beautifully restored
Academy of Music on Main Street. Series, day and individual film passes are available. See
www.northamptonartscouncil.org for more information.
LINDA POST • BALANCING ACTS
October 10-November 14, 2008 at R. Michelson Galleries
Paradise City Founding Director Linda Horvitz Post had her first solo show
in New York City at the Mary Ryan Gallery in 1984. Since then, she has
presented her work in more than a dozen solo shows nationwide. Her
paintings reside in important collections, both in the U.S. and abroad. Join
us at the R. Michelson Galleries at 132 Main Street in Northampton for the
opening of 'Balancing Acts', Post's first major exhibition of paintings, pastels
and monotypes in nearly a decade. Meet Linda Post and enjoy the festivities
at the Artist's Reception on Saturday, October 11 from 6pm to 8pm, after a
day at Paradise City.
Post's highly detailed oils chronicle the psychology of the cusp of adolescence.
The landscape is easily recognizable as southeastern Massachusetts, Cape
Cod and the Islands, the place where the artist spent much of her own
childhood and adolescence. A related series of recent monotypes will also
be on display. Her monotypes are essentially paintings transferred to paper,
each a one-of-a-kind piece.
These new monotypes, paintings and pastels, intensely pigmented and
filled with light, all speak to the very tenuous balance of conscious and
unconscious. Post says, 'Much of my imagery explores edges: the cusp
between childhood and adolescence, the place where the sky becomes the
sea, the spaces between relationships, and especially the light of twilight or
dawn. These are the most ambiguous times of day, when objects lose their
clarity, and even the sky is ambivalent about its intentions.'
With a well-known artist as one of the show directors, it's no wonder Paradise
City is known for innovative visuals, creative concepts and the continuing
discovery of new and emerging artists. The mission of turning Paradise City
into one of the nation's most celebrated shows while carving out serious
studio time for herself has indeed been a balancing act of its own. More images here...
Linda Post: Balancing Acts • October 10, 2008 - November 14
R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street, Northampton, MA • Ph: 413.586.3964 • Website: www.RMichelson.com
Color catalogue available Artist's Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11, 6PM to 8PM
Creative Residents of the Pioneer Valley
From Emily Dickinson to Tracy Kidder, Dr. Seuss to
Leonard Baskin, Jenny Lind to Taj Mahal, the Pioneer
Valley has been a magnet and inspiration for visual,
performing and literary artists throughout history. It's the home of contact improvisation dance, an international
enclave of realist painters and a center for printmaking, bookbinding, fine woodworking and furniture
design. Some say that the Valley's residential concentration of
artists comprise a larger per capita percentage here than in any
other population center in the country!
New England's 'Restaurant Central'
Northampton knows food! It's a place where gourmet fare is
served up daily in dozens of restaurants -- A place where 'fresh'
means what you're eating might have been grown nearby on
some of the best agricultural land in the world. The area is rich in
a savory culture of wines, microbrews, organic farms, some of
the best coffee you've ever tasted and much, much more. With a
restaurant or café for every taste and budget, residents and
visitors are constantly delighted by exceptional cuisine, ambience
and style. Go from lunch in the Dining Tent to dinner on the town!
10 Outstanding Museums - In One Gorgeous Place!
The Museums of the Five College Area (Museums10), consist of ten
museums and galleries that boast world-class collections and major
exhibitions throughout the year. Northampton has the Smith College
Museum of Art, well known for its Impressionists and Post-
Impressionists, and now in the forefront of contemporary art. Just
seven miles up the road, in Amherst, you can visit Amherst College's
newly refurbished Mead Art Museum or the Pratt Museum of Natural
History. Drive another mile or two for the outdoor sculptures at Hampshire College Art Gallery, take the
kids to the new Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and browse the fascinating and unique National
Yiddish Book Center. Without leaving town, stop by the University Gallery in the Fine Arts Center at
UMass and Emily Dickinson's Homestead. Head 15 minutes north to Historic Deerfield for a tour of 14
perfectly preserved 18th and 19th century houses filled with decorative arts. Just over the river is Mount
Holyoke College, with its own world class Art Museum.
Post's highly detailed oils chronicle the psychology of the cusp of adolescence.
The landscape is easily recognizable as southeastern Massachusetts, Cape
Cod and the Islands, the place where the artist spent much of her own
childhood and adolescence. A related series of recent monotypes will also
be on display. Her monotypes are essentially paintings transferred to paper,
each a one-of-a-kind piece.
These new monotypes, paintings and pastels, intensely pigmented and
filled with light, all speak to the very tenuous balance of conscious and
unconscious. Post says, 'Much of my imagery explores edges: the cusp
between childhood and adolescence, the place where the sky becomes the
sea, the spaces between relationships, and especially the light of twilight or
dawn. These are the most ambiguous times of day, when objects lose their
clarity, and even the sky is ambivalent about its intentions.'
Northampton knows food! It's a place where gourmet fare is
served up daily in dozens of restaurants -- A place where 'fresh'
means what you're eating might have been grown nearby on
some of the best agricultural land in the world. The area is rich in
a savory culture of wines, microbrews, organic farms, some of
the best coffee you've ever tasted and much, much more. With a
restaurant or café for every taste and budget, residents and
visitors are constantly delighted by exceptional cuisine, ambience
and style. Go from lunch in the Dining Tent to dinner on the town!
