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Clark Art Presents 'Writing Closer: Art and Writing'| 08:00AM / Friday, April 19, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, April 26 at 10:30 am, the Clark Art Institute's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper invites writers of all experience and skill levels to find inspiration in thematic selections from the Clark's collection of works on paper. April's open writing session theme, "Art and Writing," features prints, drawings, and photographs exploring the relationship between images and text. The selection includes works with inscriptions, captions, and hand-written dedications by their artists, as well as illustrations of famous literary scenes. Whether it's poetry or prose, fiction or non-, and a story-in-progress or something >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Classical Music Concert| 04:00PM / Thursday, April 18, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 21 at 4 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a classical music performance. Acclaimed new music ensemble Yarn/Wire plays the US premiere of "Three Lines of Flight" by composer Patrick Higgins, a multi-movement work of adventurous new classical music written for two pianos and two percussionists, featuring live electronic instruments by the composer. Yarn/Wire is a new music quartet dedicated to the promotion of creative, meaningful live musical experiences in the US and abroad. Yarn/Wire achieves this by supporting composers and audiences through live performances, educational activities, and large-scale >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Film Viewing and Discussion | 08:01AM / Thursday, April 18, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 25 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents an exclusive event with Warner Friedman, a prominent artist in the Berkshires for over fifty years. After screening the 2023 short documentary directed by Diane Crespo, "Warner Friedman: A Postmodern Journey" (Run time: 21 minutes), the artist and the filmmaker join in a conversation and Q&A session. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Renowned as a contemporary landscape painter, Friedman is celebrated for his vibrant scenes framed by fences, gates, windows, and doors. >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Thematic Tour on British Art| 04:01PM / Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 21 at 11:15 am, the Clark Art Institute presents a free In Focus tour examining how British artists and artists working in nineteenth-century Britain used realism and compelling storytelling in their art. A Clark educator leads a thematic tour of the permanent collection, exploring how key artists depicted emotions in their figural works. Learn about groundbreaking modes of landscape painting originated by artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable. Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Visitors may pick up a ticket at the Clark Center Admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served >> Read More |
Clark Art Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians| 08:03AM / Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, April 19, 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. >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture Examining Race and Idealized Image of the Wilderness| 08:13AM / Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 23 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a lecture by writer Daegan Miller examining the complex history of race and the idealized image of the wilderness of the nineteenth-century Adirondacks. The talk takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to the press release: The wilderness often conjures images of vast, untouched-by-human expanses of forest––an idealized image of how nature should be. Yet humans have always lived in the woods, and this idealized image of nature erases its complex history. This talk returns >> Read More |
Images Cinema's Inaugural Earth Week Film Festival| 08:00AM / Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema presents their inaugural Earth Week Film Festival Friday, April 19 through Thursday, April 25. An expansion upon the long-standing Fresh Fest: A Food and Farming Film Festival, which usually ran one weekend, the Earth Week Film Festival will run a full week and engage in a variety of topics that range from regenerative agriculture, the plastic pollution, and metal extraction from the ocean floor. The festival includes 10 films, 13 screenings, 7 with discussions with experts in their field, local farmers, activists, and more. A full list of films follows below, and can also be found at >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Art Making Workshop| 04:25PM / Friday, April 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As part of April School Vacation Week programming, the Clark Art Institute presents its Sprouting with Seeds Art-Making Workshop on Wednesday, April 17 from 1–3 pm. The free workshop takes place in the Michael Conforti Pavilion, located in the Clark Center. According to a press release: Celebrate spring and the quickly approaching Earth Day by joining Clark educators for an art-making activity that incorporates indigenous pollinator seeds that you can take home and plant. Take care of the Berkshire bees with your seed creations that help support a resilient ecosystem and have fun with family and friends along the >> Read More |
Clark Art Airs Production of 'La Rondine'| 11:52AM / Friday, April 12, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "La Rondine" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, April 20 at 12:55 pm in the latest installment of the 2023–24 season of The Met: Live in HD. The 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: Puccini's bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City'| 08:16AM / Thursday, April 11, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 11, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its three-part film series exploring lyrical depictions of cities in films that resonate with the Paper Cities exhibition. The Clark shows "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: This emblematic "city symphony" film is structured to follow the life of Berlin and its inhabitants across the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, to create “a symphonic film with the thousandfold energies that make up the life of a great city,” as described by the director, >> Read More |
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