Events

Islam and Copernicus Reconsidered: The Annual Richmond Lecture

Professor F. Jamil Ragep Tuesday April 14 6:30 pm Griffin Hall Room 3… Continue reading »

Envisioning Curatorial Practice

Cesar Garcia, Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Mistake Room in Los Angeles Monday April 20, 2015 7pm WCMA … Continue reading »

Warhol & Cookbooks

Susan Rossi-Wilcox, Culinary Historian and Darra Goldstein, Professor of Russian and Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture Talk with drinks and mingling to follow Tuesday April 7, 2015 6pm WCMA… Continue reading »

Frank Lloyd Wright: Early Work

Exhibition of Wright’s early work January 3- May 24, 2015 WCMA… Continue reading »

Opening Lectures for Van Gogh and Nature

Richard Kendall, Chris Stolwijk, and Sjraar van Heugten Sunday June 14, 2015 11am-12:30pm and 3:00-4:30pm Clark West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Art and War in the Machine Age

Lecture by Robert Mark Antliff Saturday May 9, 2015 3-4pm Clark West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Belinda Rathbone and the Boston Raphael

Belinda Rathbone lecture Sunday, April 26, 2015 3-4pm Clark West Pavilion… Continue reading »

21st Annual Judith M. Lenett Lecture – “The History and Conservation Process of a Cornucopia Mirror”

Haejeong Yoon, Williams M.A. Class of 2015 Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellow Tuesday May 12, 2015 5:30pm Lunder Center at Stone Hill, Hunter Studio… Continue reading »

What Americans Can Learn About the Race Discussion from South Africa

Farieda Nazier lecture Thursday April 9, 2015 5:00-6:30 Clark West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Object Workshop with Kevin Murphy

Wednesday March 11, 2015 4:30-5:30 WCMA Rose Gallery… Continue reading »

Warhol by the Book

Warhol by the Book is organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, one of four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. The first US exhibition to focus on Warhol’s book work, it features more than 400 objects including unique and unpublished materials, and highlights WCMA’s important holdings given by Richard F. Holmes ’46. Continue reading »

Graduate Program Curatorial Workshop with Darby English

Thursday February 25, 2015 WCMA Rose Gallery… Continue reading »

Graduate Program Curatorial Workshop with Tumelo Mosaka

Monday, March 9, 2015 4:00-5:30 WCMA Rose Gallery … Continue reading »

Artistic self-definition in Archaic Greece: The Franςois vase as the Shield of Achilles

An Art Department faculty colloquium by Guy Hedreen Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 4:15pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »

Conversation with Jacqueline Lichtenstein

Jacqueline Lichtenstein joins Iris Moon, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a wide-ranging conversation about her life and scholarship. Tuesday March 10, 2015 5:30-6:30 Clark West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Curator Tour “Three Centuries of American Art”

Kevin Murphy Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 12 noon Williams College Museum of Art… Continue reading »

“Three Centuries of American Art”

Opening Reception Thursday, February 19, 2015, 6-8pm Williams College Museum of Art… Continue reading »

“The Back of the Painted Beyond”

Michael Ann Holly Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 5:30pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Machine Age Modernism with Chris Waters

Gallery Talk Friday, April 24, 2015, 3:00-4:00pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

“(No) Easy Prey: Animals in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Italian Art”

Kathrin Müller Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 5:30pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

“The Accidental City: Representing Algiers Circa 1953”

Sheila Crane Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 5:30pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

“The Challenge of Cave Art to the Future of Visual Culture”

Michele Cometa Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 5:30pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

“‘Passion in Slow Motion’: Merce Cunningham and the Pictorial Impulse”

Carrie Noland Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 5:30 pm Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Machine Age Modernism will feature a group of forty prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection. These works capture the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. February 28th-May 17th, 2015… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial workshop with Lisa Dorin

Thursday, February 19, 2015 4:00-5:30pm Williams College Museum of Art, Reading Room/Rose Gallery… Continue reading »

Machine Age Modernism-Opening Lecture by Jay Clarke

Opening lecture for the exhibition Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Corwin Collection by Jay Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs Sunday, March 1, 2015 3:00-4:30 Clark Center West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Clark Public Lecture “Late Monet and Abstract Expressionism: Conflicting Views”

Michael Leja, Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania Sunday, January 25, 2015 3:00-4:30 pm … Continue reading »

From the Land of the Buddha to the World of the Geisha

Through close examination of the works of art assembled by Professor Scarlett Jang and WCMA curator Elizabeth Gallerani, the students in Professor Jang’s Asian Art Survey discuss a variety of topics. This exhibition ends Dec. 14, 2014. Continue reading »

Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

A film documentary on Ellsworth Kelly. Sunday, December 14, 2014 3pm Clark Art Institute, West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Celebrate the Opening of Looking At and Looking Through: Rethinking Portraiture

This exhibition is a remixed version of Material Friction organized by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Curating American Vernacular Art. Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 6 pm Williams College Museum of Art… Continue reading »

Fathi Hassan: Migration of Signs

This exhibition highlights works created by Hassan in the last five years. These works serve as allegories of the diasporic condition, spiritual journeys, and reform movements like the Arab Spring. November 22, 2014- April 26, 2015 Williams College Museum of Art… Continue reading »

Fathi Hassan–Site-Specific Wall Drawing

Fathi Hassan will create a site-specific wall drawing. Visit to watch the work take shape! November 18, 19, & 20, 2014 Williams College Museum of Art … Continue reading »

Monet/Kelly Opening Celebration

This exhibition brings together two paintings and eighteen unpublished drawings selected by Kelly, together with nine paintings by Monet from his Belle-Île series and from his garden in Giverny. Saturday, November 22, 2014 6-8 pm Clark Art Institute, West Pavilion… Continue reading »

Annual Whitney Stoddard Memorial Lecture: “Charles Moore, Architect”

Kevin Keim, Director of the Charles Moore Foundation Thursday, November 6, 2014, 4:30 pm, Lawrence 231… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial Workshop in Contemporary Art with David Breslin

Group Conversation: “The Most Important Exhibition-Post World War II? Describe and Defend” Monday, November 17… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial Workshop in Contemporary Art with David Breslin

C. Ondine Chavoya, Professor of Art, Chair of Latina/o Studies Program On Asco: Elite of the Obscure and his upcoming Pacific Standard Time project Monday, November 3… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial Workshop in Contemporary Art with David Breslin

Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Art On an upcoming exhibition exploring the relationship between mainstream and so-called “outsider” art practices in the United States in the twentieth century Thursday, October 16… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial Workshop in Contemporary Art with David Breslin

David Zink Yi, Artist, and Lisa Dorin, Deputy Director and Curator of Contemporary Art, WCMA On a prospective project at the Williams College Museum of Art Wednesday, October 1… Continue reading »

Graduate Program bi-weekly Curatorial Workshop in Contemporary Art with David Breslin

David Breslin, Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program and Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects, The Clark On an upcoming 2015 retrospective on David Wojnarowicz at the Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curated with David Kiehl, The Whitney Monday, September 22… Continue reading »