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The Clark’s Major Summer Exhibition Featuring Pissarro Opens

(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…

Williams Names Interim Museum Director

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Katy Kline, former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1998-2008), has been named interim director of the Williams College Museum of Art. She will serve from early August until the permanent director is in place. Current director Lisa Corrin steps down from her position on June 30. Deputy director John Stomberg…

Berkshire Weekend Cultural Preview June 2-5

REALIST PAINTING at HARRISON GALLERY Generation II by Judith Solomon The Harrison Gallery will present a group show of realist painting by five masters of the genre – Hale Johnson, John MacDonald, Nick Patten, Judith Solomon, Kim Denise, and Carol Gobin, opening with an artists reception on Saturday, June 4, at 5. The exhibition runs…

Trustees Plan Hikes, Events for National Trails Day

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.)  – While the official date of National Trails Day (NTD) is on June 4 this year, The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s oldest statewide land trust, have events planned at multiple locations – including Monument Mountain in Great Barrington and Field Farm in Williamstown — for all ages throughout the month June.  Events…

WTF Casting Includes Donna McKechnie, Maura Tierney and Steven Weber

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Maura Tierney (ER; Some Girl(s)) and Steven Weber (Brothers and Sisters; Design for Living at WTF) will star as Barbara and Kenneth Hoyle in Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels, the first Main Stage production of the Williamstown Theater Festival’s 2011 season (June 29 – July 24, 2011), the company’s 57th season and…

Clark Exhibition Catalogs Garner Honors

(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…