Monday February 6, 2012 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will debut four new paintings by Anna Betbeze in her first solo museum exhibition in MASS MoCA's Hunter Center mezzanine gallery, on Wednesday, Feb. 8. The works made for MASS MoCA -- "Ebb," "Veil," "Mud," and "Chamber" -- are inspired by an array of natural forms including mold, moss,   Full Story

Sunday February 5, 2012 TROY, N.Y. -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institure’s Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center will host physicist John D. Barrow in a free and open to the public lecture on the "observer effects" principle and the impact of images on the development of science throughout history on Wednesday, Feb.   Full Story

Wednesday February 1, 2012 KIDS & FAMILIES Bennington Contra Dance At Masonic Hall. Bennington. 802-447-2173. Feb. 3 from 7:30-10:30 p.m. -- Family-frendly community Contra Dance with Peter Stix will be calling to the music of Wintergreen. Equinox Village Manchester. 802-362-4061.   Full Story

Wednesday February 1, 2012 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williams College Museum of Art this weekend will open "Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987" -- the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972-1987), co-organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.   Full Story

Wednesday February 1, 2012 BENNINGTON -- Charles Dewey has always had an appreciation of local history, and the desire to preserve it -- as you would expect from a descendant of the Rev. Jedidiah Dewey, Bennington's first minister. So when Rev. Dewey's original Vermont marble headstone, located in the Bennington Center Cemetery, broke at the ground and fell in 2008, Charles knew   Full Story

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Wednesday February 1, 2012 MANCHESTER -- The Southern Vermont Arts Center, in the winter mood even if the weather is not, will host its first workshop of the season, snow painting with Stapleton Kearns -- "Design and Color for Outdoor Painting," running Thursday, March 1, through Saturday, March 3, from 9:30 a.   Full Story