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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Anonymous 18th Century Black Portrait| 08:04AM / Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a lecture by Erica Moiah James (University of Miami / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: In this free talk James provides a study of the anonymous eighteenth-century work "Portrait of a Young Woman" using the material archive provided by the sitter's dress, jewelry, and cotton head-tie to establish her as a Black, Caribbean, creole woman. It seeks to render a "problem space" between historical Black representation and 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fin Comm Begins Review of FY25 Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:03AM / Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town is looking at a 2.8 percent increase in its property tax levy for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, and members of the Finance Committee last week talked about finding a way to whittle that number down. Town Manager Robert Menicocci presented the Fin Comm with a preliminary budget of $24.8 million for FY25, up 4 percent from the $23.9 million spending plan for the current fiscal year. Factoring out other sources of income for the town, that leaves a local property tax burden of $20.9 million, up from $20.3 million in the current fiscal year, a rise of about $600,000 or 2.8 percent. "I'd like to throw down a goal here 0 Comments
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Gaza Resolution Proponents Again Make Their Case to Williamstown Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:00PM / Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — About a dozen people Monday pleaded with the Select Board to take a stand on behalf of the town in favor of an immediate cease fire in Gaza. Several of the same activists who first brought a resolution to the board two weeks ago were back, filling the meeting room to capacity and sharing impassioned appeals to break with the board's practice of not voting on matters not directly under the board's purview. "We, as members of Berkshire County, are committing this genocide," said a Lee resident who made the trip north to address the board. "We are funding it, and we have the power to stop funding it." Most of 0 Comments
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Williams College Art Museum Debuts Emancipation Exhibit By Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:30PM / Monday, February 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A new exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art amplifies the voices of contemporary Black artists and their experiences of "freedom" 160 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. "One thing that people in the museum world think about about Williams is the incredible impact on arts leadership around the world and museums leadership around the world that Williams has had, and that is very much embodied in this exhibition," Director Pamela Franks said. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation debuted at the museum on Friday and will be on display through July 14. The show, which includes works from seven
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Mount Greylock Regional School Presents 'Kiss Me, Kate' | 08:00AM / Monday, February 26, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School will present the musical "Kiss Me, Kate" on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 29, March 1, and March 2, 2024, at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. Accordding to a press release: In this hilarious play within a play, sparks fly as a divorced couple find themselves starring opposite each other in a musical version of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Bella and Sam Spewack wrote the book, with music and lyrics by the legendary Cole Porter. The show won the very first Tony Award for best musical in 1949 for beloved classics like 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on the Importance of Prints in Visual Art| 08:00AM / Monday, February 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, March 2 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free lecture by art critic Susan Tallman titled "Without Prints You Don't Understand the Culture of the World." This lecture is presented in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Looked at narrowly, prints may be a niche topic in art history, but for more than 500 years they have also been the lifeblood of the circulatory system of visual art. The title of Tallman's lecture comes from the late art historian Leo Steinberg's observations about a seventeenth-century Mughal painting based on an 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Falls in League Title Game| 05:29PM / Sunday, February 25, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Trinity men's basketball team Sunday outscored Williams by 15 points in the second half to earn a 59-52 win in the championship game of the NESCSAC tournament. Henry Vetter led the Bantams with 19 points. Alex Stoddard scored 18 to lead Williams (21-6). Photos from this game here. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Fun on First Sunday: 'Center Stage'| 04:02PM / Sunday, February 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, March 3 from 11 am–4 pm, the Clark Art Institute lifts the curtain on a day of art, creativity, and fun. Transform a box into a miniature theater using special images from the Clark's collection. Express yourself with comedy/tragedy mask-making. Then watch as director, writer, and educator Rudy Ramirez stages an original theatrical performance. Head into the galleries to uncover the drama of Clark artworks with a gallery guide on world-famous nineteenth-century actress Sarah Bernhardt. The Clark's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a special pop-up installation of theater-inspired prints and drawings that set the 0 Comments
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Roughley Lifts Williams Men in Conference Semi-Final| 10:58PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Dalton's Brandon Roughley scored 13 points Saturday to lead the Williams College men's basketball team to a 57-43 win over Amherst in the NESCAC semi-finals. Roughley also had three rebounds, two blocks and two steals in 24 minutes of work. Cole Prowitt-Smith scored 10 points and grabbed seven boards for Williams, which shot just 33 percent from the field but held the Mammoths to 28 percent shooting. Williams (21-5) hosts Trinity on Sunday at noon for the conference title. Women's Hockey MIDDELBURY, Vt. -- Kate Flynn and Rachel Neyman each scored a pair of goals to lift Middlebury to a 4-1 win over Williams in the NESCAC 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Free Gallery Tours For Parents and Infants | 04:18PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, March 1 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main Admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark's permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a 0 Comments
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Williamstown Decides to Clear Out Water Street LotBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:59AM / Thursday, February 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A long-time de facto parking lot on Water Street will be closed to vehicles as of March 1, the town has announced. The 1.27-acre dirt lot that was most recently the site of the town garage has been used to park cars for decades. But the town has never formally considered it a parking lot, and it is not paved, lined or regulated in any way. The town manager Thursday said that concerns about liability at the site led to a decision to place barriers around the lot to block cars this winter and for the foreseeable future. "Over the fall, we kept an eye on it, and what we were seeing was upward of 160 or 170 cars on any given day," Bob 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on Littoral Law| 08:04AM / Thursday, February 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a lecture by Sora Han (University of California, Irvine / Clark Fellow) at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The free talk examines the colonial law of the high seas and its various doctrines regulating everchanging natural borders between land and water to inform a reading of the break between the oceanic of law's words and how contemporary artists rearticulate them into other aesthetic forms. The focus of Han's lecture is Charles Gaines's Manifestos 4 (2020) and Sky Box II (2020), which 0 Comments
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