Clark Art To Broadcast 'Fire Shut Up In My Bones'| 01:41PM / Thursday, January 13, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will join a national rebroadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's critically acclaimed production of Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones." The special presentation has been organized by the Metropolitan Opera as a Black History Month celebration of its first production of an opera by a Black composer. The Clark will screen the encore broadcast in its auditorium at 12:55 pm on Saturday, Feb. 12. "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" debuted on opening night of the Metropolitan's 2021-22 season to extraordinary critical reviews. The Metropolitan's Music Director Yannick 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Williams College I/O Fest | 12:00PM / Friday, January 07, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute is hosting five performances as part of the Williams College Music Department's I/O Fest, an annual expedition into the music of today. From Jan. 13 through 16, 2022, students in the music program will take audiences on a tour of new sounds and adventurous music. These free programs are presented in the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion, but advance registration is required. Visit clarkart.edu/events for more information. The performance schedule is: I/O Ensemble Performance Thursday, Jan. 13, 4– 5 pm The Williams College Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Matthew Gold and the 0 Comments
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Mass Cultural Council Head Tours North County VenuesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:53PM / Friday, December 17, 2021 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday afternoon, leaders of the North Country arts community gathered on the top floor of the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center to talk to the executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. And there was more talk about buses than Botticelli. "When you're 20, you do not come with a car," Clark Director Olivier Meslay said during a working lunch with the MCC's Michael J. Bobbitt. "But here, if you don't have a car, you are in trouble." Meslay and other representatives of the arts community were invited to share their thoughts about what support is needed to build the cultural 0 Comments
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Clark Art Airs The Met: 'The Magic Flute'| 12:11PM / Wednesday, December 15, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, Dec. 26 at 12:55 pm in an encore presentation of The Met: Live in HD. The award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. This encore presentation was the Metropolitan Opera's first Live in HD transmission and features a winning ensemble that includes tenor Matthew Polenzani, baritone Nathan Gunn, and bass René Pape in this abridged, English-language version of Mozart's classic 0 Comments
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Berkshire Artists Raise Money for Elf Program| 05:11PM / Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A number of local artists raised nearly $800 for the Berkshire Community Action Council's Elf Program. The benefit art show and reception was held recently at Gramercy Bistro on Water Street. Featured artists included Marilyn Cavallari, Kathryn Benson, Liz Cunningham, Stephen Dankner, Ellen Joffe Halpern, Jane Hudson, Kaye Shaddock and Mary Weissbrodt. "I wanted to raise at least a thousand and we came close," Cavallari said, who presented a check for $776 to Aleta Moncecchi, the program's deputy director for Northern Berkshire. The Elf Program has been providing warm winter clothes for area children in need for many 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offering Free Admission in January | 12:38PM / Monday, December 13, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will offer free admission for all visitors for the month of January 2022. "We believe that the ability to see and appreciate art is fundamental to enhancing and understanding the human experience. As a means of encouraging people to make time in their lives to enjoy the power of art, we have decided to offer free admission throughout the month of January," said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. "We continually hear from people that the chance to walk our trails or visit our galleries has been particularly meaningful over the last two years and has helped to provide a source of respite and relaxation. As 0 Comments
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BAAMS Welcomes New Faculty | 09:11AM / Monday, December 13, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— The Berkshires' Academy for Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) Welcomed four new faculty members. The growing nonprofit music school has offered both online and in-person music lessons for Berkshire youth. Latin Grammy Nominee Argentinian born pianist and composer Dario Boente grew up in Argentina and Spain, immersed in the culture of tango and Jazz. He pursued his formal studies at Berklee School of Music (Boston), the Guildhall School of Music (London) and the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Program (New York). Dario has released 10 albums and compilations as a leader, featuring well-known Jazz musicians. He has also played, 4 Comments
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'Repro Japan' Exhibition On View At WCMA| 12:20PM / Friday, December 10, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — "Repro Japan: Technologies of Popular Visual Culture," an exhibition that traces Japanese popular culture across place, time, and medium, is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through March 20, 2022. In Japan's Edo period (1603-1868), the growth of urban audiences and new popular entertainments combined with new printing technologies to produce new forms of popular art. Subsequently, photography and electronic media have fostered the global spread of Japanese popular visual culture, while many of its central themes and motifs—sports, fashion, and fighting, along with fantasies of all kinds—have remained remarkably 0 Comments
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Unsilent Night| 04:11PM / Wednesday, December 08, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Phil Kline's walking symphony experience, "Unsilent Night" returns again to the Berkshires on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. "It's like a Christmas caroling party except that we don't sing, but rather carry boomboxes, each playing a separate tape or CD which is part of the piece," said Kline in a press release. "In effect, we become a city-block-long stereo system." This free community event starts at the '62 Center on the Williams College campus and will end at the Williams Inn. Participants collectively create the event by walking in a group with boomboxes, bluetooth speakers, and other 2 Comments
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Clark Art Exhibition On French Prints| 04:32PM / Tuesday, December 07, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents an opportunity to explore steady opposition to the use of color in printmaking in nineteenth-century France. "Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate over Colors" presents a array of French color prints from the Clark's works-on-paper collection, by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Jules Chéret, Maurice Denis, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Édouard Vuillard. The exhibition is on view Dec. 11, 2021 through March 6, 2022. "Color prints are so widely accepted and beloved today that it's hard to 0 Comments
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