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Clark Art Hosts Talk By Poet and Scholar| 07:49AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. This free event takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. A book signing follows the talk. According to a press release: Reddy joins novelist and the Clark's Research and Academic Program's Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, "The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures" (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Joconchnson through images such as Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of >> Read More |
Clark Art Concert By Circuit Des Yeux| 07:57AM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents the final concert in its Music in the Manton series on Thursday, Nov. 7, featuring the Circuit des Yeux, Bill Nace, and kite/wing. The concert takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium at 6 pm. According to a press release: Circuit des Yeux is the stage name of Haley Fohr, a Chicago-based vocalist, composer, and singer-songwriter known for her four-octave voice and distinctive twelve-string guitar style. Her recent works include an original soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, and her acclaimed 2021 album –io, featured on >> Read More |
Clark Art Offers Gallery Tour for Parents and Infants | 11:21AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 2 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark's permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a variety >> Read More |
Clark Art Hosts Concerts So Percussion| 08:15AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by the chamber group S? Percussion in the Manton Research Center auditorium. For over twenty years, S? Percussion has redefined twenty-first-century chamber music through an "exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy" (The New Yorker). Celebrated for their diverse work, their live performances showcase "telepathic powers of communication" (The New York Times). Their recording Narrow Sea (Nonesuch Records) with Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish won the 2022 Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. They will collaborate with Williams College >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents First Sunday Free| 08:11AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute First Sunday Free series continues on Sunday, November 3 from 1 to 4 pm. November's theme is "Frame and Reframe." According to a press release: At the Clark, we love talking about paintings, prints, and drawings. But for this First Sunday Free, we are excited to talk about something that is often overlooked—the frame! In addition to their often-ornate decoration, frames serve an important function: defining what we can and cannot see. Take a viewfinder into the galleries and discover interesting compositions all around you. Decorate a frame to take home for your own photo or >> Read More |
Clark Art Gifted 331 Works, Endowment to Build New Wing| 05:52PM / Monday, October 28, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute has received one of the largest gifts in its history from the foundation of the late philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian. The gift includes 331 works of art from Tavitian's personal collection and more than $45 million to endow a curatorial position to oversee the collection, provide necessary support for the collection's long-term care, and fund construction of a new Aso O. Tavitian Wing at the Clark. "It is an incredible honor to receive this transformational gift," said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon director of the Clark Art Institute. "During his lifetime, Aso Tavitian was a wonderful friend to the >> Read More |
Clark Art Talk by Post Art Critic | 08:02AM / Monday, October 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Oct. 30 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a special appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian Smee, art critic for The Washington Post, as he introduces his new book "Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism." According to a press release. From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871 Paris and its people were besieged, enduring bloody street battles, the burning of central Paris, and widespread starvation. It was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist art movement was born?in response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue. Smee tells the story of those >> Read More |
WCMA Programs Celebrate Pallavi Sen Exhibition| 04:03PM / Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art will celebrate Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory, an immersive installation of new work by interdisciplinary artist and Williams College assistant professor of art Pallavi Sen, with two programs this weekend. Through partnerships with writers, students, and other artists, the exhibition reflects the key tenets of Sen's practice, namely teaching, collaborative making, and the nurturing of life. Co-curated by Nicholas Liou, former Mellon Curatorial Fellow at WCMA, and Roz Crews, Associate Curator of Programs, the exhibition runs through Dec. 22. On Friday, Oct. 25, from 6 to 7 p.m., join the artist and curators for a >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Radical Art, Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil| 07:51AM / Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 29, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a lecture by Mari Rodriguez?Binnie (Williams College), who discusses her new book "The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde" (University of Texas Press, 2024) in which she examines how?artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in the 1970s and 1980s in São Paulo, Brazil. This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Often working collaboratively, these artists established alternative networks of exchange locally and internationally to >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Cross-Cultural Visualizations of Territory| 11:17AM / Friday, October 18, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Here, Low, In This River Bend," a lecture by Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University / Clark Fellow), who charts a cross-cultural history of visualizing territoriality in the lower Mississippi River Valley and the Gulf of Mexico. This free event takes place at 5 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Among Indigenous inhabitants, the area that would become New Orleans was known as Bvlbancha—the land of many tongues, or many waters. This region was located at the threshold of land and water and, by the >> Read More |
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