The latest New England campus architecture

Business Innovation Hub at UMass, Amherst; new Design Building to the left.
Photo by Bjarke Ingels Group

Architectural critic and historian Willliam Morgan has written an exciting column, with splendid photos, in GoLocal24.com about  some new campus architecture in New England. It’s a very nice tour d’horizon.

 To read Mr. Morgan’s piece, please hit this link.

And ready for winter

“Empty Nesters” (branch and gold leaf), by Karen Loomis, at Hampden Gallery, Amherst, Mass., through Dec. 6.

Processing 'space/place'

“So Here So There’’ (encaustic on wooden panels), by Barbara Ellmann, at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, starting April 7.

The gallery says that Ms. Ellmann's large grids of encaustic paintings explore how we process and catalog our visual experience of space/place by “using varying degrees of abstraction and kinetic juxtapositions of form, color and pattern to suggest fleeting impressions, connections and memories.’’

Mysterious African minimalism at UMass

Untitled painting by Fred Wilson, in his show "5 takes on African Art,'' at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, through Dec. 17.