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Clark Art Offers Free Gallery Tours For Parents and Infants
04:18PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, March 1 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

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Clark Art Lecture on Littoral Law
08:04AM / Thursday, February 22, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a lecture by Sora Han (University of California, Irvine / Clark Fellow) at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.    The free talk examines the colonial law of the high seas and its various doctrines regulating everchanging natural borders between land and water to inform a reading of the break between the oceanic of law's words and how contemporary artists rearticulate them into other aesthetic forms.   The focus of Han's lecture is Charles Gaines's Manifestos 4 (2020) and Sky Box II (2020), which

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3D Art Films at Images Cinema in Conjunction with 'Anselm'
01:06PM / Wednesday, February 21, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Images Cinema will present the new 3D documentary "ANSELM," about German artist Anselm Keifer, Friday, February 23 through Thursday, February 29.    As a last hurrah for 3D cinema, Images will also present in limited engagement a handful of other notable 3D films by auteur film directors Wim Wenders, Ridley Scott, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón from 2011 to 2013.    Full details can be found at https://www.imagescinema.org/pandoras-children-auteurist-3d.    Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street Williamstown.   According to a press release:   James Cameron’s "AVATAR" heralded a revival of

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Clark Art Concert By Ice Rasta and Father Hotep
08:00AM / Tuesday, February 20, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In partnership with North Adams-based Belltower Records, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by Ice Rasta and Father Hotep on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 pm.    The performance takes place in the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion (located in the Clark Center), wrapping up the Concerts at the Conforti series for the spring season.   Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Advance registration required; capacity is limited. For more information and to register, visit clarkart.edu/events.   According to a press release:    Ice Rasta is Adam McNair, a New England-based mixed media artist specializing in drum

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Berkshire Student Film Festival Seeks Submissions
02:00PM / Friday, February 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema will present its inaugural regional student film festival over the first weekend in May.    "This open call offers a felicitous opportunity for young creators of the Berkshires to see their short films on the big screen," said Images intern and Williams College student Minnie Lerner.    The festival is seeking submissions from high school and college students at schools within a 25 mile radius of Images Cinema, including Williamstown, North Adams, Pittsfield, and Bennington, VT. Submissions are now open until Sunday, March 17 and can be made upon accessing the Images website (imagescinema.org).    Up to two

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Clark Art Broadcasts 'King Lear'
08:01AM / Friday, February 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Feb. 25 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute broadcasts a recording of Shakespeare's "King Lear" filmed live in London.    This event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   According to a press release:   Ian McKellen stars as King Lear in this tender, violent play. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two aging fathers—one a King, one his courtier—reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with

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Clark Art Offers Activities During School Vacation Week
08:00AM / Wednesday, February 14, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— From Monday, Feb. 19 through Friday, Feb. 23, the Clark Art Institute hosts special activities during February School Vacation Week.    Every day this week, visitors can also pick up a set of complimentary colored pencils and a drawing pad at the Clark Center Admissions desk. Admission is free for all visitors through March 31, 2024.   Feb.  22, 2–4 pm Clark Center, Michael Conforti Pavilion Learn more about the photographic printing process. Drop in anytime from 2–4 pm and experiment with light-sensitive paper to make your own cyanotype.   Feb.  23, 1 & 2 pm Clark Center, Family Room In these guided workshops,

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'Emancipation' Opens at WCMA
07:45AM / Tuesday, February 13, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—In conjunction with the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will present newly commissioned and recent works by Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith in a new exhibition visualizing Black freedom, agency, and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond.   The seven installations featured in "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation"—spanning sculpture, photography, and paper and textile fabrications—will react to the legacy of John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze sculpture "The Freedman"

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Clark Art Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians
08:15AM / Monday, February 12, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 16, 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. 

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Community Contra Dance in Williamstown
12:37PM / Wednesday, February 07, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance on Saturday, Feb. 10.     Popular young caller Liz Nelson will teach every dance to live traditional fiddle music from the local band, Cider Mountain.   According to a press release, Contra dancing is a living tradition in New England; for hundreds of years, neighbors and friends have made their own social entertainment in this easy and highly collaborative dance form. All are welcome.  Come alone, or with friends -- most people change partners for each dance throughout the evening. New dancers and families with children are encouraged to arrive by 7:30 for instruction in

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