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Clark Art Collage Club| 01:48PM / Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's monthly Collage Club meets again on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Visitors are welcome to drop in between 6–8 pm to make a creative collage. This free art-making program takes place in the Manton Research Center reading room. The Collage Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month in the colder months of the year, through March of 2026. Free. All materials provided; recommended for ages 16+. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. >> Read More |
Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'Sweet Smell of Success'| 07:44AM / Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | |
 Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'Sweet Smell of Success' WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, Nov. 13 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, continues its Noir Film Series with a screening of "Sweet Smell of Success." This program takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. In director Alexander Mackendrick's swift, cynical "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician who's romancing his >> Read More |
Mount Greylock, Shakespeare & Co. Stage 'Twelfth Night' | 04:04PM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School and Shakespeare & Company present "Twelfth Night" in the school's auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. Performances are Thursday and Friday, Nov. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m. "Twelfth Night," by William Shakespeare, is a comedic tale of mistaken identities, wildly changing fortunes and love triangles. This production is part of Shakespeare and Company's annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare, which is celebrating its 37th year." The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is made possible with funding from the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, the Feigenbaum Foundation, the Janey Fund,
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Clark Art Lecture on Reading Coastlines| 01:43PM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Leslie Geddes (Tulane University / Clark Fellow) that examines how early modern cartographers taught others to see coastlines and read their contours in maps. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. This talk makes Italian hydrography distinct by focusing on how early modern printed atlases shed light on the vast conceptual gulf between articulating known terrain versus cartographic imaginings of remote seas. More than collections of maps, atlases such as Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare (“The Secrets of >> Read More |
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 |
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