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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Berkshires

Berkshires stories: 2 news summaries
ART REVIEW

 Huge LeWitt Exhibition 
 Is Beautiful Lunacy 

Mass. retrospective traces artist's work in Minimalism and Conceptualism

Nov 17, 08 12:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Sol LeWitt died last year, but his artwork is still being created—executed by handlers according to written instructions. This weekend marked the opening of a massive exhibition of LeWitt’s wall drawings at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, an exhibition Sebastian Smee, in the Boston Globe, calls “... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • art • Massachusetts • Berkshires • Sol LeWitt • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

The House of Mirthlessness

Drowning in debt,
Edith Wharton's
Mass. estate faces foreclosure

Feb 28, 08 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Edith Wharton's masterpieces include The House of Mirth, but the story of her own house is much less joyous. Her estate in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, currently a museum called the Mount that chronicles her life and career, is drowning under some $9 million in debt. Now, writes the Berkshire ... More »

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philanthropy • literature • foreclosure • museums • Edith Wharton • the Mount • Berkshires • The House of Mirth • estate

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