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Images Lobby Art Installation| 11:02AM / Monday, December 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — "ELLIPTICALS" is a solo show of recent en plein air landscape paintings by Alvin Ouellet at Images Cinema from Dec. 2 through Dec. 31, 2024. Alvin Ouellet is a full-time professional artist based in Adams. His recent works were created and are on display at various locations throughout the Berkshires. A Meet the Artist reception will be held at the Images Cinema Lounge on Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 5pm to 7pm. Alvin will greet guests and present an Artist Talk about the paintings featured in this show. Refreshments will be provided. Alvin Ouellet acknowledges the support of the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires (CCNB), a local >> Read More |
WCMA Announces Closure of Upper Galleries| 04:00PM / Friday, December 06, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will close its upper galleries as it prepares for a new purpose-built facility. The closure marks the end of nearly a century of exhibitions in Lawrence Hall, which has undergone multiple renovations and additions over the years. To commemorate this transition, WCMA will host "Last Chance Glance" events on the following dates: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 3-5 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. 12, noon-2 p.m.; Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2-4 p.m.; and Thursday, Dec. 20, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Visitors can view the current exhibitions, including "Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art," "Pallavi Sen: Colour >> Read More |
Clark Art Participates in Williamstown's Holiday Walk Weekend | 03:45PM / Friday, December 06, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute joins in the community-wide celebration of the holidays during Williamstown's 41st Annual Holiday Walk Weekend, held the first weekend in December. The Clark kicks off the festivities on Friday, Dec. 6 with a live concert by Wanda Houston. On Dec. 7, the Clark hosts art-making activities and horse-drawn carriage rides on Spring Street, while its Café 7 makes a return entry participating in the Soup-er Bowl cook-off. The party closes out on Dec. 8 with Feeling Glittery, Williamstown Theatre Festival's special musical production presented in the Clark's Manton Research Center >> Read More |
Clark Art Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians| 08:07AM / Friday, December 06, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Dec. 13, enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection. In Fresh Takes, a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object, or two, with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion at noon. No registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Lecture on Dolls in Modern German Culture| 08:10AM / Thursday, December 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by Christophe Koné (associate professor of German and director of the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College) on his new book, "Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture" (University of Michigan, 2024). According to a press release: In it he examines dolls' omnipresence in the material, visual, and literary culture of the modern German-speaking world. Because dolls occupy a liminal space—not quite things and more than mere objects—they appear as uncanny creatures which >> Read More |
Clark Art Free Gallery Tours for Parents, Infants| 12:09PM / Wednesday, December 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Dec. 7 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 >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'Bonnie and Clyde'| 08:18AM / Tuesday, December 03, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its ten-part New Hollywood Auteurs film series with a screening of "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, each film is introduced by a staff member of the Clark or Images. According to a press release: Half comic fairy tale, half brutal fact, "Bonnie and Clyde" is based upon the Barrow Gang that terrorized the South in the 1930s. Part of the changing of the guard in Hollywood, the film ushered in an era of violent and sexually liberated film making. Although Truffaut’s style >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Holiday Walk Weekend Concert | 08:05AM / Friday, November 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute kicks off Williamstown's 41st Holiday Walk Weekend with a festive concert featuring singer Wanda Houston and the Wanda Houston Project. The concert begins at 6 pm on Friday, Dec. 6 in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For tickets and more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture On Photography and Antiblackness| 08:34AM / Thursday, November 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Photography, Antiblackness, and the Politics of the Visual," a lecture by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. According to a press release: This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Brown examines photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness that have ritualized ways of seeing for the viewing public. She unpacks what she calls a >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Abelardo Morell| 08:25AM / Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 23 at 11, in conjunction with the opening of its newest exhibition, Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable, the Clark Art Institute hosts a lecture by the artist Abelardo Morell. This free event takes place in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Walking in the iconic paths of nineteenth-century landscape painters John Constable and Claude Monet, Morell (b. 1948, Havana; lives and works in Boson) has traveled to locations in England and France with a tent-camera, a device that allows him to unite in a single photographic image the features of >> Read More |
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