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Clark Art Screens 'Bless Their Little Hearts'| 12:18PM / Friday, September 22, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Sept. 28, the Clark Art Institute continues its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion, presented in celebration and anticipation of the Clark's 2023 Conference, "The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History, 1500–1900." The Clark shows "Bless Their Little Hearts" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Directed by Bill Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts (1984; 1 hour, 24 minutes) represents the closure and pinnacle of a neorealist strand within what's now described as the L.A. Rebellion, >> Read More |
WCMA Celebrates Beatriz Cortez: The Portals Exhibition| 12:56PM / Thursday, September 21, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art will host a celebration of Beatriz Cortez: The Portals starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21. The Portals is an exhibition in multiple locations in and around WCMA that explores alternative genealogies of Williams College. Three outdoor components located on Main Street attend to omissions and erasures in the built environment of the campus: Historic House, 2022-23, which invites visitors to imagine the space where these forgotten workers tended to the households of colonial settlers; XX, 2022-23, a mound of steel rocks, shaped and welded by hand that pays tribute to the 18th and 19th century Black residents of >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Raphael's The Sistine Madonna| 08:11AM / Thursday, September 21, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Sept. 26, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Brigid Doherty (Princeton University / Clark Fellow), who considers the significance of Raphael's The Sistine Madonna (1512/13) in and around two epochal essays of the twentieth century: Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (1935–39) and Martin Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1935–36). The free lecture takes place at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The Sistine Madonna has figured prominently in >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens 'To Sleep With Anger'| 08:06AM / Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Sept. 21, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion, presented in celebration and anticipation of the Clark's 2023 Conference, "The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History, 1500–1900." The Clark shows "To Sleep With Anger" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. This film replaces "Killer of Sheep" that was originally slated to show on Sept. 21 According to a press release: "To Sleep with Anger" (1990; 1 hour 42 minutes) is the third feature directed by Charles >> Read More |
Fall Repertory Programming at Images Cinema| 04:00PM / Monday, September 18, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema is once again presenting monthly repertory programming, celebrating 25 years of being a non-profit organization. Images will show films from 1998 and 1999. "After a record-breaking summer, we're excited to dip back into our monthly repertory series in full swing," said Dan Hudson, Images' Executive Director. "For our third edition, we're looking at the end of the last millennium – one of the richest periods in American film and also a time of emerging waves of new voices around the globe." Cinema Redux features restored versions of films: "The Big Lebowski," "But I'm >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Writing Closer: Art and the Senses| 08:13AM / Monday, September 18, 2023 | |
 WILIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Sept. 22 at 10:30 am, the Clark Art Institute welcomes writers aged sixteen and older of all experience and skill levels to the next installment of its Writing Closer program. The session takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper. September's theme, "Art and the Senses," features prints, drawings, and photographs evoking sensations of touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell. Whether it's poetry or prose, fiction or non-, and a story-in-progress or something completely new, allow the works to inspire your writing. Free. Basic materials will be provided. Only graphite pencils are allowed in the >> Read More |
Clark Art Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant| 12:17PM / Saturday, September 16, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for $100,000 to support the implementation of a summer 2024 exhibition on French artist Guillaume Lethière. The grant to the Clark was part of a $41.3 million package of 280 humanities projects nationwide recently announced by the NEH. "We are extremely grateful to the NEH for its support and for the recognition of the importance of this project," said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. "This is the first time in the Clark's history that we have received an NEH grant in support of an exhibition and its >> Read More |
Clark Art Music on the Moltz Terrace: Senseless Optimism and Wendy Eisenberg| 12:01PM / Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Sept. 17, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its three-part fall concert series with performances by Senseless Optimism and Wendy Eisenburg. The free outdoor concert takes place at 5 pm on the Moltz Terrace, Lunder Center at Stone Hill. According to a press release: Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Brittany Tsewole brings her project, Senseless Optimism, to the Clark. Her evocative lyricism guides her audiences through a genre-defying array of local and global sounds. Improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer, and voice. Their work spans >> Read More |
Clark Art Invites People With Dementia, Caregivers for Gallery Talk| 02:00PM / Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Meet Me at the Clark, a free gallery talk program designed specifically for people living with dementia and their care-partners, will be held Monday, Sept. 18 at 1:30 pm at the Clark Art Institute. On select Mondays, when the museum is closed to the public, specially trained educators guide open-ended conversations about art and how it celebrates our shared humanity. Free. Advance registration required; capacity is limited. To register, call the Education Department Coordinator at 413 458 0563; accompanying care-partners must also register. >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Students Stage Wilde Classic for a CauseBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:25PM / Wednesday, September 06, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Che Guerra's biggest problem with school-based theater programs is that they end when the school year ends. "The real reason we're doing this is we are obsessed and we were going through theater withdrawal," Guerra said recently. "This" is a student-led production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" that Guerra is co-directing with fellow Mount Greylock Regional School senior Quin Repetto. The show will have just one curtain, on Friday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children, and proceeds benefit The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis >> Read More |
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