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Clark Art Airs 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X'

11:57AM / Monday, November 13, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, November 18 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: Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O'Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines

10:59AM / Friday, November 10, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Florian Idenburg, co-founder of SO-IL, the architecture firm selected to design and build WCMA's new home in Williamstown, will give the annual Plonsker Family Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 16, at 6 p.m. in the '62 Center for the Theatre and Arts. The presentation will include an historical overview of the museum's evolution as a building type, touching on the drivers that have changed our thinking and how to design a museum for the future. Idenburg also will discuss some of SO-IL's previous work. The lecture will be preceded by a reception at the '62 Center from 5 to 6 p.m. SO-IL was founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu

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

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