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Clark Art New Season of First Sunday Free| 08:01AM / Wednesday, October 02, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute holds its inaugural First Sunday Free of the season on Sunday, Oct. 6 with the theme Dancing with Degas, celebrating dance and movement in connection with the exhibition Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism. Offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm, the Clark features a pop-up installation of prints, drawings, and photographs showcasing the art of dance in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper from 11 am–1 pm, plus a series of dance-themed special activities from 1–4 pm. Sculpt your own mixed-media dancer, drawing inspiration from Degas's Little Dancer. Composed of an >> Read More |
Clark Art Airs Production of 'Les Contes d'Hoffman'| 08:00AM / Tuesday, October 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "Les Contes d'Hoffman" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 1 pm in the first installment of the 2024–25 season of The Met: Live in HD. This award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Offenbach's fantastical opera stars French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'The Three Musketeers: Part I D'Artagnan'| 12:22PM / Friday, September 27, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As part of its free Alexandre Dumas film series this fall, the Clark Art Institute screens "The Three Musketeers—Part I: D'Artagnan" (2023) at 6 pm on Oct. 3 in the Manton Research Center auditorium. The film is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Guillaume Lethière, on view at the Clark through Oct. 14. According to a press release: An unbelievable hit when it was first published, The Three Musketeers has been adapted into film over thirty times, most recently in this two-film version by Martin Bourboulon in 2023. As the Guillaume Lethière exhibition enters its last weeks, celebrate the >> Read More |
Community Contra Dance in Williamstown| 12:03PM / Thursday, September 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN — The North Berkshire Contra Dance returns to Williamstown on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a community contra dance taught by caller Jeff Walker and New England-style fiddle music. Contra dancing is the contemporary face of a living tradition; some of the dances are hundreds of years old, some are recently composed. Everyone is welcome. New dancers and families with children are encouraged to arrive at 7:30 pm for an introductory lesson. Come with or without a partner; most people change partners for each dance throughout the evening. Kathy and Jeff Walker have been playing New England-style dance music for over 40 years. Kathy plays fiddle and Jeff >> Read More |
WCMA Celebrates Fall With Weekend of Programs| 12:09PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will kick off the fall semester with a weekend of celebrations on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28. On Friday, Sept. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. visit WCMA to view fall exhibitions, including Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz; Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art, curated by WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval; SO-IL/WCMA: Building a New Museum, organized by WCMA and SO-IL, the architects designing the new museum building; Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory, curated by former WCMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Liou
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Clark Art Concert By Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC| 11:34AM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents an addition to its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with performances by Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC on Sunday, Sept. 29. The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm. Malik Abdul-Rahmaan, a music producer and prolific record collector, has collaborated with artists such as Ghostface Killah, Pink Siifu, and Oddisee. A veteran of the New York City beat scene and a key figure in Japan's hip-hop movement, he created the ethnomusicological series Field Research, available via Paxico Records. DJ REC opens. Carlos REC McBride, a Northampton >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Symposium on Guillaume Lethiere| 10:53AM / Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents a one-day symposium on Friday, Sept. 27 in celebration of Guillaume Lethière. The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière's extraordinary career. This free event takes place from 9:30 am–6:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. The symposium invites scholars and the public to examine Lethière’s body of work together, and to contextualize the presence and reception of Caribbean artists in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The event is moderated by Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director at the
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Clark Art Tour of Impressionist Works | 08:10AM / Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents a special tour of its Impressionist collection on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 1 pm. As part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Williamstown Public Library, local art historian Jock Brooks leads a gallery tour exploring works of art made in 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris and the same year the Williamstown Public Library was founded. Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Museum Pavilion >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture: 'To Represent, or Not'| 08:00AM / Friday, September 20, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Sept. 24 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "To Represent or Not: An Ideology of the Image in the Kingdom of Ethiopia," a lecture by Clark Fellow Claire Bosc-Tiessé of the National Center for Scientific Research and School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in France. The talk takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Bosc-Tiessé will look at what Ethiopians, depending on their position in society—rulers, high-ranking lay or religious dignitaries, parish priests or ordinary >> Read More |
Civic Cinema Series at Images Cinema| 11:33AM / Thursday, September 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema announced a new film series, Civic Cinema, which examines American society through a hopeful and pragmatic lens. The series consists of three films fresh off the film festival circuit: "Bad Faith" (9/23), "Join or Die" (9/30), and "Girls State" (10/7). All three films are solutions-oriented documentaries aimed to prompt conversation and deliver real world steps to improve civic bonds in our communities, and are presented free and open to all. Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street, Williamstown. "There's a lot of talk about how polarized American politics is, about how >> Read More |
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