(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando will make a special free presentation at The Clark on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 pm focusing on his work on The Clark’s campus expansion program. Ando designed The Clark’s Stone Hill Center, which has quickly become an iconic part of The Clark’s campus. In this special…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker, will present a free lecture entitled The Critic as Artist in 2011: Updating Oscar Wilde, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, September 11 at 3 pm. In this special lecture, Clark Prize winner Peter Schjeldahl will discuss whether dedicated art…
The week’s cultural higlights offer eclecticism and diversity, ranging from new avant-garde classical music at Tanglewood as part of the Contemporary Music Festival to avant-garde dance with ping-pong balls at Jacob’s Pillow to avant-pop vocals by Lia Ices at Club Helsinki Hudson to luminous landscapes at Harrison Gallery to neo-Victorianism at Norman Rockwell Museum to…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Trio con Brio Copenhagen, one of today’s most exciting young chamber ensembles, performs an eclectic program featuring works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Frank Martin at The Clark on Tuesday, August 9 at 8 pm. Korean sisters Soo-Jin and Soo-Kyung Hong and Danish pianist Jens Elvekjaer created the trio in Vienna in 1999…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s chamber music series begins with the acclaimed Borealis String Quartet on Tuesday, August 2 at 8 pm. For their concert at The Clark, the Borealis String Quartet will perform Haydn’s Quartet in G Major, Opus 76, No. 1; the premiere performance of local composer Stephen Dankner’s Quartet No. 12; and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Continuing its commitment to global outreach and cultural exchange, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opens the exhibition La Collection Clark à Giverny, de Manet à Renoir at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny, France, as part of the international tour of masterpieces from its collection of nineteenth-century European paintings. Open…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s outdoor summer band concert series begins on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at 6 with the acclaimed family bluegrass band the Doerfels, who performed at The Clark in 2009 to a packed audience and rave reviews. One of today’s most exciting and unique groups, The Doerfels perform lively progressive acoustic music…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Clark’s Stone Hill Terrace Café has been honored with Yankee magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for “Best Museum Lunch Spot.” Offering a stunning view of the Berkshires, the Stone Hill Café is open seasonally for lunch, weather permitting. Outdoor patio-style seating is available on the terrace overlooking the Taconic Range and the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pissarro’s People, the first major exhibition to focus on the Camille Pissarro’s personal ties and social ideas and the major show at The Clark this summer, opens this weekend. Also opening this weekend at The Clark are El Anatsui, featuring works by one of Africa’s greatest living sculptors, and Spaces: Photographs by…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s exhibition catalogues Picasso Looks at Degas and Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450-1850 have been recognized in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards. In the Fine Art category, Picasso Looks at Degas was awarded the silver medal, and Eye to Eye received the bronze. Books…
