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Clark Art Free Summer Hours, Transport, Events| 10:56AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Summer 2024 at the Clark Art Institute brings new opportunities to discover some of its special exhibitions, opportunities to visit for free, a host of free events and activities, and free bus transportation between Williamstown and North Adams.
The Clark is adding extended evening hours and free admission on select dates this summer. Beginning June 19, the Clark offers free admission from 5 to 9 pm on Wednesdays through Sept. 25, 2024. Visitors can enjoy free evening access to two of its special exhibitions, "Guillaume Lethière" and "Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass." The Museum Store is stocked with new >> Read More |
Clark Art Performance By Garcia Peoples, Mountain Movers | 08:00AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute continues its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with a performance by Garcia Peoples on Sunday, June 23. Mountain Movers opens. The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm. According to a press release: The dynamic band Garcia Peoples, featuring guitarists and vocalists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, drummer Cesar Arakaki, bassists Andy Cush and Derek Spaldo, and keyboardist P.G. Six., was formed in Rutherford, New Jersey. The group takes inspiration from the improvisational and psychedelic jam bands of the 1960s. With a stash of live recordings accumulating >> Read More |
Clark Art Celebrates Juneteenth | 08:02AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, June 19, the Clark Art Institute celebrates Juneteenth with art-making and music. From 1 to 3 pm, drop in for a free art-making event inspired by contemporary artist David-Jeremiah's exhibition "I Drive Thee." According to a press release: In these works, the artist reflects on his experience of Black masculinity in America through large-format, semi-abstract sculptural reliefs and explores the symbolism of the Lamborghini sports car and the Spanish bullfight in contemplating questions of race—the first as a symbol of prestige and performance, the second as a spectacle of power and persecution. Make an >> Read More |
Clark Art Celebrates Father's Day | 11:46AM / Wednesday, June 12, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 16, from 1 to 3 pm, the Clark Art Institute celebrates Father's Day with free activities. Decorate a special token of appreciation for the fathers and father figures at a card-making station in the Clark Center's lower level. After card-making, head outside and enjoy a walk around our 140-acre campus. The day is Free, and family programs are supported by Allen & Company. >> Read More |
Clark Art Reception, Lecture For Guillaume Lethiere Exhibition | 08:09AM / Tuesday, June 11, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, June 14, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm, the Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of Guillaume Lethière with a free community-wide celebration, offering guests an opportunity to preview its newest exhibition. On Saturday, June 15, at 11 am, exhibition co-curators Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, and Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director, introduce Guillaume Lethière and provide an inside look at the development of this ambitious exhibition. Through more than 100 paintings, drawings, and sculpture, the Clark tells the story of Guillaume Lethière's rise to the heights of the art >> Read More |
Community Contra Dance in North Adams| 04:00PM / Wednesday, June 05, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Saturday, June 8 there will be a community contra dance. North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance with calling by Peter Stix, and live music provided by an open band. 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 the basics. Peter Stix will call all dances, starting the evening with easy dances friendly to newcomers and families with children. The caller teaches new moves and skills as needed, so that beginners can dance with everyone right >> Read More |
Clark Art Concert By Basic and Erica Dawn Lyle | 08:09AM / Monday, June 03, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday June 9 at 5 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents the first of its four-part Music on the Moltz concert series with a performance by Basic. Erica Dawn Lyle opens. The free outdoor concert takes place on the Clark's Moltz Terrace at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. According to a press release: Evocative of an imaginary electronic desert blues soundtrack, Basic is a new project of Philadelphia's Chris Forsyth (guitar), Nick Millevoi (guitar, drum machine), and Mikel Patrick Avery from Natural Information Society (percussion/electronics). Inspired by the aesthetics of American guitarist Robert Wolfe Quine and >> Read More |
BAAMS' Band and Special Guests Live at Waubeeka | 12:52PM / Thursday, May 30, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, June 1, from 4 to 7pm, Waubeeka Golf Links at 137 New Ashford Road, will host a music event benefitting Berkshires' Academy for Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS). The lineup includes BAAMS faculty Richard Boulger on trumpet and flugelhorn, Alex Blake on bass, Dario Boente on piano and keyboards, and Tony Lewis on drums and percussion. Special guests will join them. Tickets can be purchased here. There will be seating and food and drink available for purchase including flatbread pizza, wraps, burgers/cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches with mushrooms and cheese, turkey wrap, nachos, and more. There will be a full >> Read More |
Williams Grads Present Art History at the Leading Edge| 01:13PM / Monday, May 27, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Friday, May 31, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art will host public presentations at the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center by the Program's graduating Masters students. The presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams' 2024 Commencement weekend, will address a variety of topics in the history of art, including the gendering of seventeenth-century sculpture, late eighteenth-century abolitionism in painting, nineteenth-century electrotypes and imperial power, early cinema and death, cultural anthropology and cybernetics at the Museum of Modern Art in
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Clark Art Free Pride Month Tour | 08:00AM / Monday, May 27, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 2, the Clark Art Institute offers a special free event, "Queering the Clark's Collection," in celebration of Pride Month. A Clark educator leads a guided tour of the permanent collection, and together educator and guests contemplate questions like "What makes an artwork queer?" and "How does our understanding of queerness today shape how we understand the identities and lives of artists in the past?" Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center Admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Museum Pavilion at 11:15 am. >> Read More |
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