Arts & Literature Reviews & Coverage
The Man Can
Medway painter and tattoo artist Canman crafts high-color visions, and in Vintage Hallucinations ,...
Sound & Vision
There are few more stressful jobs than Emergency Room Technician, and one can imagine the focused intent...
There are few more stressful jobs than Emergency Room Technician, and one can imagine the focused intent...
Certain Words
Poets seldom reach consensus on aesthetic matters, but few indeed are the poets who don’t offer...
Poets seldom reach consensus on aesthetic matters, but few indeed are the poets who don’t offer...
Liebling’s Holyoke
A photo exhibition by the late Jerome Liebling is the centerpiece of a month of art in Holyoke.
Art in Paradise: The Art of the Contraption
Sculptor/animator Gina Kamentsky makes sculptures that clank and ring.
Whimsy in Paradise
Take Alexander Calder’s mobiles and throw in heaping amounts of Rupe Goldbergian excess, and...
Art in Paradise: Death from Above
A UMass exhibition aims to bring the realities of drone strikes back home.
A MUSEical Journey
Valley Classics presents A MUSEical Journey in celebration of the beginning of the Spring 2013 season....
Valley Classics presents A MUSEical Journey in celebration of the beginning of the Spring 2013 season....
Quite, Quite Mad
If you’ve ever perused Mad Magazine, you’ll know just the kind of overwhelming mish-mash...
Art in Paradise: Cute Monstrosities
Northampton’s FOE Store and Gallery specializes in grown-up toys.
Art in Paradise: Murder, Boston-style
The long life of the Bay State’s most notorious gangster is the subject of Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill’s Whitey.
Art in Paradise: Poetry in the Precinct
A new arts initiative brings poetry, theater and more to Holyoke municipal workers.
A new arts initiative brings poetry, theater and more to Holyoke municipal workers.
Letters: What Do You Think?
This week: Arts Center Seeks New Home, Stein Convinces, and a Correction
This week: Arts Center Seeks New Home, Stein Convinces, and a Correction
James Kitchen: Sculpting the Past
The Chesterfield artist welds together pieces of the past to make public art.
Phoenix Rising
Xu Bing, one of China’s most widely known artists, brings his latest work to Mass MoCA. Originally...
Art in Paradise: Not the Last First
Northampton’s First Night isn’t an easy party to throw, but the show must go on.
Northampton’s First Night isn’t an easy party to throw, but the show must go on.
Arts Factory
Holyoke’s past as a planned center of industry hasn’t left the city with a clear road map...
The Local Line
R. Michelson Galleries’ Illustration Exhibition is a who’s who of international—and local—illustrators.
Art in Paradise: The Looking Glass
Valley artist Barry Moser’s Alice exhibition offers a look into the process that brings his images to the page.
Frost Talks
Playwright Andy Dolan says Robert Frost “was a bit of a ham.” He recalls that the poet...
Home Is Where the Art Is
As KW Home, Keith Woodruff brings intelligent design to Pioneer Valley homeowners.
Literature: Poets Aloud
Poetry gets a bad rap any more, too often dismissed as something hopelessly musty or maudlin. Yet its...
The Brighter Side of Winter
Get into the season with the Springfield Museums’ Holiday Happenings. After the turkey has been...
Dress Rehearsal
Florence-based artist Elizabeth Stone, who, not surprisingly, comes from a background in the fashion...
Out of the Blue in Turners Falls
Loot, an “industrial artifact and handmade goods emporium,” takes its inspiration from the town where it was born.
Art in Paradise: Second Time Around
A Supreme Court case could affect how music, art and books are bought and sold.
A Supreme Court case could affect how music, art and books are bought and sold.
A TED Tasting
It’s okay to admit it if at first you too have no idea what all this “TED” business...
Fall Arts Preview
Our sampling of the best of the season in a Valley brimming with local and imported talent.
Autumntimes: Out of Sight!
Brattleboro's In-Sight Photography Project offers local youth more than just darkroom lessons.
Art in Paradise: In the Hinterlands
Former Valley resident Jeff Sharlet examines the landscape of American faith.
Five Years of the Public Humanist
A half-decade review of one of the most popular blogs on valleyadvocate.com
Art in Paradise: Scoundrels Afloat
Herman Melville's last novel is fodder for an art exhibition by Williamstown's Doug Paisley.
Art in Paradise: When Poetry Isn't
Christopher Janke turns the notion of a poem on its head in his sculptural poetry book.
Art in Paradise: Retweet This?
The online world is threatening to spill over into the real one in alarming style.
The online world is threatening to spill over into the real one in alarming style.
Behind the Beat: Three-Horned Rock
Though their new project is only a few months old, the musicians of Trhinoceros have all played in...
Art in Paradise: Ramble On
Samuel Rowlett combines studio, gallery, and the environment in his singular exploration of art.
North Easton's Public Palaces
A lavish downtown still offers the sense of majesty, identity and pride in community its builders intended over a century ago.
Princesses and Saints
Valley writer and illustrator Ruth Sanderson's work offers timeless tales rendered in oil paint.
Inversions
In Shelburne Falls, a triad of Valley artists finds natural magic in soft metals, digital imagery, rescued detritus, and more.Find it Here:
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Love, American Style: Lisa Hoke
Springfield Museums
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