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Clark Art Lecture on Emamzadeh Yahya Project| 07:36AM / Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk with Keelan Overton (Independent Scholar / Clark Fellow) on the Emamzadeh Yahya Project. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Established in 2021, the aim of the Emamzadeh Yahya Project is to increase awareness and understanding of the Emamzadeh Yahya shrine complex and its dispersed tiles, collections, and archives worldwide, without pursuing commercial, political, or institutional objectives. The project's key values are independence (of conception and production), collaboration (between individuals and >> Read More |
Northern Berkshire Contra Dance | 02:36PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance on Saturday, Nov. 8. Ben Sachs-Hamilton, the caller, will teach every dance, and live fiddle music will be provided by the California-based band, "Raven and Goose". The dance will run 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Community Hall of the First Congregational Church, 906 Main St., Williamstown. Admission is pay-as-you-can: $12 - $20 suggested, and barter is also welcome. Contra dancing is a living tradition in New England; for hundreds of years, neighbors and friends have made their own social entertainment in this easy and highly collaborative dance form. >> Read More |
Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'The Hitch-Hiker'| 10:27AM / Monday, November 03, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Nov. 6, at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, continues its Noir Film Series with a screening of "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953). This program takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. Two men on a fishing trip pick up a mass-murdering hitcher and are forced at gunpoint to drive him through Mexico until the fatal moment when he no longer needs them. Director Ida Lupino never relaxes the film's tension for a moment, yet her emotional sensitivity is also upfront: charting the changes in the menaced men's relationship as they bicker about how to deal with their >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Lecture on Laurent D'arveiux and the King's Bible | 07:54AM / Thursday, October 30, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Julie Harris (Independent Scholar / Clark Fellow) examining French consul Laurent d'Arvieux's 1683 discovery of a Hebrew Bible written and illuminated in medieval Iberia three hundred years earlier. The talk takes places in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: His purchase of the codex should not surprise us: d'Arvieux was one of a cadre of European diplomats and travelers in the middle east in search of so-called Oriental manuscripts, particularly early Bibles, to ship back to scholars >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Screening of 'Westermann'| 07:49AM / Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 1 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a 3D screening of "Westerman: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea" in the Manton Research center auditorium. A Q&A with Brian Ashby, one of the film's producers, follows the screening "Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea" is a 3D documentary film about the life and work of artist, marine, and acrobat H.C. (Cliff) Westermann. As a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Westermann's dramatic personal history can be traced through beguiling, surreal artworks. The film reveals ways in which Westermann protected his >> Read More |
Clark Art Offers Free Gallery Tour For Parents and Infants | 12:41PM / Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 1 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute continues a series of gallery tours designed specifically for new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main admissions desk. On the first Saturday of the month, September–June, a Clark educator leads an informal, baby-friendly tour of the permanent collection. The program aims to provide a stress-free experience for new parents and caregivers, as well as the chance to socialize with others caring for young infants. Works by a variety of artists are featured. This program is best suited for adults with pre-toddlers. Strollers and >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens Free Noir Film Series | 10:41AM / Saturday, October 25, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Beginning this fall, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, hosts a series of classic noir films. All films are free and screened in the Manton Research Center auditorium on select Thursdays at 6 pm. October 30 The Big Sleep (1946) Based on Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name, The Big Sleep might be the high-water mark of Hollywood's love affair with the infinitely slippery possibilities of the English language. It is also a study in the evasiveness of genre. Although the morals are skewed, the bullets plentiful, and the femmes most definitely fatale, Bogart's Marlowe is a decent, (mostly) unconflicted hero, >> Read More |
Construction Begins on Images Cinema's Two-Screen Theater Renovation| 01:44PM / Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Images Cinema, the Williamstown movie house, has begun work on its long planned Capital Project to renovate and upgrade its facility. While its Main Theater is closed for renovations, programming continues in its Lounge space with Bartender hours and Cinema Lounge shows and continuing community events. "We're very excited to begin work on this important project," said Images Board Chair Kevin O'Rourke. "Images is, and has been for years, an anchor of Spring Street and the Williamstown business community. The overwhelming support of the community, including our members, has been incredible." So far, the LOOK FORWARD Campaign has raised
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Clark Art Presents Concert By Davone Tines With Ruckus | 11:15AM / Monday, October 20, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute welcomes the return of renowned early music band, Ruckus, for a new concert performance featuring acclaimed bass-baritone Davóne Tines on Friday, Oct. 24. The group will present a new program, "What is Your Hand in This?," as part of a national tour leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The performance takes place at 7 pm in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium. In a biting exploration of American revolutionary music, they time-travel through four centuries of reimagined songs, hymns, and ballads, along with a newly commissioned work by composer Doug >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Book Talk | 01:30PM / Thursday, October 16, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Oct. 22, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk with author Bonnie Tsui. Tsui discusses her 2025 book "On Muscle," in which she brings her blend of science, culture, immersive reporting, and personal narrative to examine not just what muscles are but what they mean to us. The free event takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium at 6 p.m. In "On Muscle," Tsui traces how muscles have defined beauty—and how they have distorted it—through the ages, and how they play an essential role in our physical and mental health. Woven throughout are Tsui’s own drawings and >> Read More |
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