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Clark Art Lecture on Stuart Hall| 07:42AM / Thursday, February 20, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb.25, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by David Scott (Columbia University / Clark Fellow) examining the career of Stuart Hall and the publication of Hall's landmark book, "The Popular Arts." This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Influenced by Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957) and Raymond Williams's Culture and Society (1958), this much-neglected book helped to inaugurate the study of contemporary popular culture as well as contemporary media studies. Engaging television and cinema,
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Images Launches $2.2M Capital Campaign| 09:01AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass — Images Cinema has announced a major facility renovation project, the first in 17 years, which will dramatically enhance the availability of cinematic experiences in the region by upgrading amenities and adding a second screen. The project, "Look Forward," is a $2.2 million multi-year, multi-phase construction and capital campaign that organizers say will propel the nonprofit organization's facility toward a sustainable future. Images has already raised over $1.3 million for this two-screen modernization project and will now launch a public capital campaign. It has applied for $33,000 in Community Preservation Act funding. The >> Read More |
Williamstown's Images Cinema Plans to Double Its ImpactBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:53AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
The 150-seat movie house will be split into a 70-seat theater and a 19-seat screening room. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema wants to double its impact while remaining within its current footprint on Spring Street. The non-profit art house movie theater Tuesday launches the public phase of a $2.2 million capital campaign to add a second screen to the 109-year-old venue. "This plan would allow us to increase programming and better serve a multiplicity of audiences and demographics, which have become increasingly important as younger families are moving into the area," Images Executive Director Dan Hudson said last month. "North Adams >> Read More |
Williamstown Again Williams' Town in Summer of '25By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:45PM / Sunday, February 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced a 2025 season with five full-scale productions, including two world premieres and two revivals of dramas by Tennessee Williams. The summer festival lists the five productions on its website, which provides no information about dates and says tickets go on sale "in March." In addition to two of his own works, Williams' influence is seen in one of the new works planned for the summer season, according to the WTF. Williams, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was to have been included in the WTF's aborted 2020 season with a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." After the >> Read More |
Clark Art Reflections Gallery Talk| 10:46AM / Friday, February 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents Reflections, a monthly gallery experience during which visitors are invited to look contemplatively as they engage with works of art from the Clark's collection. Participants meet in the Museum Pavilion. With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection.
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Clark Art Offers School Vacation Week Activities| 07:52AM / Friday, February 14, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute offers children and family activities and opportunities to see art during the Massachusetts public school system's February vacation week, Monday, Feb. 17 through Friday, Feb. 21. Every day of the week, children can pick up a free Drawing Pad and set of colored pencils at the Clark Center admissions desk. Visitors are also encouraged to pick up a "Wall Power!" gallery guide to learn more about the Clark's current tapestry exhibition. Special vacation week programming is offered on Tuesday, Feb. 18 and Thursday, Feb. 20. Admission to the Clark is free for all visitors through March 30, >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Gallery Tours With Emerging Art Historians | 11:20AM / Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 21 at noon, the Clark Art Institute presents a special tour as part of its Fresh Takes series. Enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection as a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion. Free; no registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. Admission to the Clark is free January through March 2025.
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Clark Art Screens 'Girlfriends'| 08:11AM / Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Clark Art Institute screens the latest installment in its Hollywood Auteurs film series, "Girlfriends" (1978), at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, this series captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system. According to a press release: When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out of their Manhattan apartment to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron) finds herself adrift in both life and love. A wonder of American independent cinema by Claudia Weill (who, when
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Clark Art Presents Sensing Nature Program | 12:47PM / Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute continues its seasonal program series, Sensing Nature: From the Outside In, on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 2 pm. A Clark educator leads a slow engagement with nature and art focused on enhancing wellbeing and encouraging visitors to connect with the landscapes on the Clark’s campus and in the galleries. The event begins outdoors, with a short, mindful walk in the woods designed to engage the senses with the natural environment; a contemplative art-looking experience in the galleries follows. Participants meet in the Clark Center admissions lobby. Free. Advance registration required; recommended for adult audiences. To register, >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture By Artist Mariel Capanna | 12:40PM / Monday, February 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Saturday, Feb. 15 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a talk by artist Mariel Capanna marking the opening of "Mariel Capanna: Giornata," the newest public spaces installation at the Clark. This free lecture takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Mariel Capanna (b. 1988, Philadelphia, where she lives and works) plays what she calls "games of remembering" as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms
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