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Clark Art Presents Series of In Focus Gallery Talks | 07:59AM / Sunday, March 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This spring, the Clark Art Institute presents "In Focus," a series of free thematic tours of its permanent collection with a Clark educator on select Sundays at 11:15 am. Romance, excitement, and power are just a few words that might come to mind when you think about the color red. Learn how artists throughout history have used color to evoke feeling, convey atmosphere, and tell stories. Examine representations of home in the Clark's permanent collection. From paintings of famous artists' houses to scenes of domestic life, this tour explores how we define and understand home—is it based on a place, a feeling, the people we >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'Shadow of a Doubt' | 04:04PM / Friday, March 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, March 20, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a screening of "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Set and partially shot in Santa Rosa, California, part of the brilliant tension that propels Shadow of a Doubt comes from its small-town setting. The town is at turns a haven and a claustrophobic trap for the teenage Charlie Newton (Teresa Wright). The film begins with Charlie bored out of her mind. When her worldly Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten), who is also her namesake, shows up, things become much more exciting—perhaps too exciting. >> Read More |
Clark Art to Host Gallery Tours Led by Williams College Students| 11:00AM / Friday, March 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present gallery tours led by Williams College graduate students as part of its "Fresh Takes" series. The tours will focus on the Clark's permanent collection. On Friday, March 21, at 12 p.m., a graduate student will offer their interpretation of selected artworks, incorporating recent scholarly perspectives. The event will encourage audience discussion. The tour will begin in the Museum Pavilion. The event is free and does not require registration. >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Reflections Gallery Talk | 08:00AM / Friday, March 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 18 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents Reflections, a monthly gallery experience during which visitors are invited to look contemplatively as they engage with works of art from the Clark's collection. Participants meet in the Museum Pavilion. With a tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection. Free. Advance registration required; >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne | 03:52PM / Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 18, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by Annie Bourneuf (School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Clark Professor 2024–25). She investigates one of the most enigmatic passages in the German-Jewish art historian Aby Warburg's picture-atlas Mnemosyne, his attempted summation in arrays of images of his work on the afterlife of antiquity, centered on Renaissance Europe and nearing completion when he died in 1929, stated a press release. This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Mnemosyne ends with >> Read More |
Clark Art Invites People With Dementia and Caregivers for Gallery Talk | 08:43AM / Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Monday, March 17 at 1 pm in the permanent collection galleries, the Clark Art Institute presents Meet Me at the Clark. This free gallery talk program is designed specifically for people living with dementia and their care partners. On select Mondays, when the museum is closed to the general public, specially trained educators guide open-ended conversations about art and how it celebrates our shared humanity. Free. Advance registration required; capacity is limited. To register, call the Education Department Coordinator at 413 458 0563; accompanying care-partners must also register. >> Read More |
Clark Art Opening Lecture on Pastoral on Paper | 08:10AM / Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, March 16 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture by William Satloff in conjunction with the opening of Pastoral on Paper. The exhibition's curator and a student in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art, Satloff introduces the concept of the pastoral landscape. Surveying the rich array of books, drawings, paintings, and prints presented in the exhibition, he explores how leading artists of the Baroque and Rococo periods envisioned the idyllic lives of shepherds. This free event takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. Pastoral on Paper is organized by the Clark Art >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'George Washington'| 03:15PM / Friday, March 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, March 13, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a screening of "George Washington" (2000) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: This film unfolds during a balmy July in a North Carolina town where kudzu embraces abandoned buildings. Four children at the edge of adolescence make a mistake that cannot be undone. They are forced to grow up, albeit only partially. One of them, George (Donald Holden), emerges as a local hero. Sublimely narrated by the twelve-year-old Nasia (Candace Evanofski), George Washington is about the relationship between choice and chance, and the >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture On Queer Art And Artists in Medieval Europe | 08:05AM / Friday, March 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 11, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by Karl Whittington (The Ohio State University) titled "Queer Making: Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe." This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Whittington asks: what role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question with reference to historical evidence about an artist's sexual identity, personality, and relationships, or with reference to particular kinds of imagery in works of art. But how do we think about
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Sage City Symphony Presents Free Concert | 08:25AM / Thursday, March 06, 2025 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt.—Sage City Symphony will perform a concert at 4:00 p.m. in Greenwall Auditorium, VAPA Building, Bennington College. The program includes works by Verdi, Glinka, Sibelius, and Mozart, as well as compositions by students from Long Trail School and Burr & Burton Academy. The performance will feature: Giuseppe Verdi's "Overture to Nabucco" Mikhail Glinka's "Valse-Fantaisie" Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Allegro Aperto" (1st movement) from "Concerto No. 2 in D Major for Flute and Orchestra," featuring soloist Julius Boxer-Cooper of Bennington College. Student >> Read More |
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