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Clark Art Presents Concert By Joe Henry | 08:50AM / Monday, June 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, July 5 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute continues its five-part outdoor concert series with a performance by Joe Henry. The free outdoor concert takes place near the Reflecting Pool. According to a press release: Grammy award–winning musician and troubadour Joe Henry performs his singular style of folk and Americana. As a songwriter and artist, Henry is celebrated for his exploration of the human experience. A hyper-literate storyteller, by turns dark, devastating, and hopeful, he draws an author's eye for the overlooked detail across a broad swath of American musical styles. Brimming with a tenderness for the >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Concert By Hermanos Gutierrez| 08:23AM / Thursday, June 22, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute kicks off its five-part outdoor concert series with a performance by Hermanos Gutiérrez on Wednesday, June 28. The free concert takes place at 6 pm near the Reflecting Pool. According to a press release: Guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez evoke expansive plains and rough wildernesses. Almost painterly in their mastery of their instruments, the two brothers, Alejandro and Estevan, transport their audiences to the wilds of Italian Westerns. With their guitars they travel through landscapes haunted by vaqueros, cancioneros, wanderers, fugitives, lovers, family, and whatever ghosts their listeners bring to >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Summer Book Club | 08:41AM / Monday, June 19, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, June 27 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts its annual summer book club in the Clark Center lower level. Book lovers and Clark staff members discuss a book related to the summer's exhibition, "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth." This year's book selection is "So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch," a personal meditation on Munch's life and work by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård. The evening begins with a brief tour of "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth;" wine and conversation follow. Tickets $10 ($8 members). Advance registration required; capacity is limited. >> Read More |
Father's Day Activities at the Clark| 08:02AM / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 18 the Clark Art will host art-making Father's Day activities offered from 1 to 4 pm and are free with gallery admission. Special gallery guides are available for visitors at the Clark's Admissions desk to provide a self-guided walk-through of the galleries focused on fathers and father figures. After getting inspired by the collection, visitors can make a card or bookmark to share with the special people in their lives. Family programs at the Clark are supported by Allen & Company. >> Read More |
Clark Art Book Talk: 'Daughter of Spies'| 08:43AM / Monday, June 12, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, June 17 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk by Western Massachusetts' own Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop. Alsop is the author of "Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies," a memoir that traces the shape of her parents' marriage from romantic wartime courtship in England to a life in Cold War Washington, D.C. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Alsop's book tells a timely story about the pioneering women who helped win the war, the difficult choices they faced in postwar America, and the powerful effects of secrets. Winthrop speaks with >> Read More |
WCMA Announces 'Construct Your Own Meaning' Summer Series| 09:26AM / Friday, June 09, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art will present "Construct Your Own Meaning," a series of summer programs that invites the community to interpret WCMA's permanent collection installation Remixing the Hall from their unique perspectives. Borrowing a term from DJ culture, "Remixing" describes WCMA curators' process of selecting objects from the collection that highlight multivalent correspondences between form and meaning in art. "By giving a diverse set of people outside the museum the agency and platform to share their personal connections to artwork in our collection, we are broadening who the museum is for," said Roz
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Clark Art Airs Live Production of 'Die Zauberflote'| 08:51AM / Thursday, June 08, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) airs at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, June 11 at 12:55 pm in the final installment of the 2022–23 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: One of opera's most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in nineteen years—a daring vision by renowned English director >> Read More |
Clark Opening Lecture for 'Trembling Earth' Exhibit | 08:43AM / Monday, June 05, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— On Saturday, June 10, in conjunction with the opening of its newest exhibition, "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth," the Clark Art Institute hosts a lecture by Jay A. Clarke, the exhibition curator and Rothman Family Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, in its auditorium at 11 am. Free; no registration is required. According to a press release: "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth" is the first exhibition in the United States to consider how the noted Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) employed nature to convey meaning in his art. Munch is regarded primarily as a figure painter, and his most celebrated images >> Read More |
Williams Students Present on Major Topics in the Field| 08:19AM / Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—On Friday, June 2, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art will host its 28th Annual Graduate Symposium at the Clark Art Institute, featuring scholarly presentations by the program's graduating Masters students. The presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams' 2023 Commencement weekend, will address topics in the history of art, from the Caribbean influence on fashion in the age of Josephine and Napoleon to abstraction in American landscapes; and from the history of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board to "Action Plastique" and the work of Moroccan artist Mohamed Melehi. All >> Read More |
Clark Art Hosts Conversation on 'Outsider Art'| 08:37AM / Friday, May 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 4 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation between scholars Kaira M. Cabañas and Raphael Koenig, who address art and mental health in a global context, in conjunction with the exhibition "Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch." The program takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Free; no registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. According to a press release: Cabañas and Koenig examine how the categories of "outsider art," patient art, and art brut relate to one another, and our >> Read More |
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