ASHFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The New Yorker recently described her as an artist who “grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in the Berkshires.” Actually, Gayle Kabaker lives in Ashfield, which everyone in these parts knows is not really in the Berkshires; you can almost see and feel the collective eye roll for that Manhattan-centric misreading of western Massachusetts’ topography. It’s like a real-life version of the famous 1976 New Yorker cover “View of the World from 9th Avenue,” which satirized the self-absorption of New Yorkers, with a “map” showing Manhattan streets at the center and thin, bland strips of territory elsewhere marked “Nebraska,” ″Los Angeles,” ″Pacific Ocean,” ″Russia” and a handful of other places. But Kabaker, a longtime freelance illustrator and artist, is willing to cut the famous magazine some slack. After all, the occasion for her notice, in the March 11th New Yorker, was a short interview that accompanied her colorful cover for the issue: a woman cross-country skiing in a snowy field, three dogs dancing ahead of her and hilly forest in the background. “I might’ve said I was from the Berkshires,” she said with a rueful smile during a recent interview at her home. “I… Read full this story
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