(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Michael Conforti, the Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, has informed the Clark’s Board of Trustees that he will retire on August 31, 2015, after more than twenty years in the position. Conforti, who has served as director since November 1994, has been widely credited for his transformational…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Monet | Kelly, the first exhibition to consider the influence of Impressionist painter Claude Monet on the works of leading contemporary American artist Ellsworth Kelly, opens at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, November 23, 2014. The works in the exhibition were selected by Kelly and include two paintings and eighteen unpublished…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Roll over, Renoir, and give Monet the news – for the first time in its history, the Clark Art Institute will feature abstract paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns, in Make It New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950–1975,…
