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Clark Art Talk Explores Beauty of its Granite WallsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:00PM / Sunday, August 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — When the Clark Art Institute opened its expanded campus more than a decade ago, the Tadao Ando-designed Clark Center won acclaim throughout the worlds of art and architecture. However, according to a retired Williams College professor, at least one glowing review may have understated the beauty of the project. "You approach the new Clark Center along smooth walls of red granite that can feel a bit daunting. But a reward is imminent," New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote in July 2014, going on to discuss everything on the other side of that wall. Bud Wobus offers a different perspective: The red granite walls outside are part of the
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Berkshires Creating with Crochet Coral Reef Project By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
07:13AM / Saturday, August 09, 2025 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — More than a dozen people of all ages were crocheting colorful versions of coral out of yarn on Friday at the Berkshire Art Center's Gallery Shop on North Street. Their creations will become part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef Project, which has attracted thousands of participants from around the world. Williams College in Williamstown has been collaborating with community members and local organizations on artists Christine and Margaret Wertheims' international project that will become part of a life-size installation. "What we're going to be doing is working with the campus and the community together to create a living and
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Clark Art, Tanglewood Host Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic| 03:00PM / Friday, August 08, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Presented in partnership with the Tanglewood Learning Institute and Tanglewood Music Center, the Clark Art Institute hosts an evening celebrating French music and art of the late nineteenth century with Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7 pm. A limited number of tickets are still available for this event, which takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Fellows from the Tanglewood Music Center will present a performance of chamber music featuring Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 along with Ed Gazouleas, Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, >> Read More |
Weekend Outlook: Community Day, Performances and MoreBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
12:08PM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
Take a look at some of the events happening this weekend in the Berkshires including live performances and celebrations.
2 Plunkett St, Lenox
Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy a day of music and art with the family. There will be performances, baby goats, face painting, and more. You will also be able to step inside Edith Wharton's estate for free from 2 to 5 p.m. More information here. Downtown West Stockbridge Time: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Depot and Center streets will be filled with vendors and zucchini-flavored activities, including a costume contest and weigh-off. There will also be children's games and activities and a pet parade, plus live music, a rock-climbing wall, and a food >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Talk on Bernice Abbott| 08:46AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Berenice Abbott Bonus Selection, the third in a summer series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: American-born, Parisian-trained Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is one of the most skillful and celebrated documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Grace Hanselman, curatorial assistant for works on paper, presents a sampling of portrait and architectural photographs that complement the works >> Read More |
Clark Art Opening Lecture for 'Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes in Time'| 07:39AM / Tuesday, August 05, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 9, at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of its newest exhibition "Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time" with a free lecture. The Isamu Noguchi Museum Foundation and Garden Museum's Matthew Kirsch, curator and director of research, and Kate Wiener, curator, introduce the exhibition. The lecture takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time explores Noguchi's fluid relationship with time—his ability to move between past, present, and future in his art. Through sculpture, design, and >> Read More |
Clark Art Hosts Opportunity to Meet, Make Art With CATA| 12:05PM / Monday, August 04, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute invites visitors to meet the artists featured in the Community Access to the Arts (CATA) exhibition "I Am a Part of Art" that is currently on view at the Clark and participate in art-making activities along with them. The event takes place in the Hunter Studio, located in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill on the Clark's campus. Spend the afternoon with the artists featured in the exhibit, learning and creating together as they share their approaches to making art. Materials will be available for visitors to experiment with the same media used by the artists. "I Am a Part of >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Outdoor Film Series| 11:48AM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In celebration of "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945," the Clark Art Institute presents a selection of films celebrating women artists working in contemporary cinema. The three-part outdoor film series is held on Wednesdays in August. All films are free and screened outdoors at dusk on the Clark's Reflecting Pool lawn. Films in this series include: LADY BIRD August 6, 8:10 pm Lady Bird (2017), directed by Greta Gerwig, stars Saoirse Ronan as a headstrong teenager navigating her senior year of high school in Sacramento. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, the film captures >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Talk on Women Impressionists| 10:23AM / Friday, August 01, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Women Impressionists, the second in a series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the Clark's noted works on paper collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, shares a selection of prints and drawings by some of the leading women Impressionists, including the "three grand damesh" of Impressionism, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Marie Bracquemond. Bell's presentation includes several >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Lecture on Bernice Abbott| 03:32PM / Thursday, July 31, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Aug. 3, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture on Berenice Abbott presented by photographer Hank O'Neal in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition "Berenice Abbott's Modern Lens." This free lecture takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium at 2 pm. According to a press release: Few people knew Berenice Abbott better than fellow photographer Hank O'Neal, who worked with her for the last nineteen years of her life. In this lecture, learn more about the fascinating woman behind the images from a man who knew her not only as a towering figure in the history of photography, but >> Read More |
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