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Clark Art Presents 'Lavender Hill Mob'

11:03AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Clark Art Institute continues its series of British films honoring the birthplace of Sir Edwin Manton during its Manton Research Center's fiftieth anniversary. The Clark shows "The Lavender Hill Mob" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. "The Lavender Hill Mob" might be the archetypal Ealing comedy. The film features everything the studio is famous for—loveable crooks, class conflict, London streets, avuncular bobbies, pratfalls, slapstick, tea, buns, and Alec Guinness—but with a Hitchcock-inspired thriller plot that makes it the most pacily enthralling of their

08:00AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, Nov. 5. offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm. The day also features a series of music-themed special activities from 1–4 pm, including a classical music performance by the JAK Duo and Daniel Temkin. According to a press release: Engage with music throughout the Clark. Move your body and join artist and educator Molly Hess for all-ages dance workshops at 1 and 2 pm. These workshops incorporate rhythm, pulse, and the visual elements of music. Then, embark on a guided soundscape experience at 3 pm, and add your own chorus of sounds to the galleries,

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Clark Art Hosts Book Talk

11:19AM / Wednesday, November 01, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Nov. 5, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk and conversation between author Christine Coulson and Elizabeth McGowan, Williams College's Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art, about Coulson's new novel, "One Woman Show." The talk begins at 11 a.m. in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The program is free and open to the public. According to a press release, Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using the Met's strict

04:05PM / Tuesday, October 31, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 3 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts a tour of its permanent collection galleries for new parents/caregivers and infants. The event is free. Participants should meet at the Clark's main Admissions desk. In this special program, new parents and caregivers bring their infants into the galleries for a guided visit and the opportunity to socialize with other community members in a casual environment. The informal tour includes a unique look at the Clark's permanent collection, featuring an array of works by a variety of artists. Each month offers a different selection of artworks. Best suited for adults with

11:00AM / Monday, October 30, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center building through a year-long series of exhibitions, events, and a special publication detailing the history of the building. To honor the milestone anniversary, the Clark presents two exhibitions opening later this autumn celebrating its works on paper collection. On November 18, the Clark opens 50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery of the Manton Research Center. On December 16, the large-scale exhibition 50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions opens in the Clark Center's special exhibition

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Clark Art Celebrates Halloween

08:03AM / Friday, October 27, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Oct. 28, visit the Clark Art Institute in costume to celebrate all things spooky, silly, and anything in between. From 2–4 pm, visitors are invited to design their own masks in the lower level of the Clark Center. Take advantage of the last chance to see the exhibition "Humane Ecology: Eight Positions" before it closes on Oct. 29. Presented in outdoor and indoor spaces at the Clark, including both the Clark's Conforti Pavilion and the Lunder Center at Stone Hill, the exhibition features eight artists who explore the inseparability of the natural and social. In addition, visitors can explore the

11:38AM / Monday, October 16, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 19, and Friday, Oct. 20, the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute hosts a Clark Conference, The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History 1500–1900. The program begins at 9 am in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The program is free and open to the public. According to a press release: The conference brings together scholars across the humanities who examine the making and "invention" of African art in European discourse. Convened by scholar and former Clark Professor Anne Lafont (The School for Advanced Studies in the

08:00AM / Friday, October 13, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk and conversation by Williams College Environmental Studies Professor Laura J. Martin. Martin is the author of "Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration" (Harvard University Press, 2022), which examines how, in this age of biodiversity crisis, many wild species will not survive without acts of human care. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Martin speaks to what can be learned from the past century of ecological restoration; discusses what it means to be wild; and offers a call for ecological

08:00AM / Thursday, October 12, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Oct. 15, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture with art historian Alexander Nagel, who examines how prints set in motion a new way of thinking about images as media, continually bringing image-making back to its fundamentals: lines on surfaces. The free lecture takes place at 1 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Five centuries before photography, printmaking fundamentally transformed western art. Prints made images move like never before, launching new forms of fame, sparking viral memes, and building shared imaginaries. Prints reconfigured all other

08:00AM / Wednesday, October 11, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a jazz concert in tribute to Art Blakey with musicians George Cables, David Schnitter, and Steve Davis. The concert takes place at 7 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Celebrate one of the founding fathers of modern jazz, legendary drummer, and bandleader Art Blakey. Blakey developed more great young musicians than anyone else from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century with his group Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Alumni include Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, and Chuck

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