The Clark

Sensing Place Symposium

This symposium will explore the question of place in art, literature, philosophy, cultural geography, and environmentalism. Participants will engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that will explore the importance of place for personal and social identity, and consider the local, national, and international implications of the loss of place. Saturday,… Continue reading »

Violence in the Air: Painting for King Philip IV’s Hunting Lodge

Between 1636 and 1638 Rubens designed over sixty paintings of mythological subjects for the Torre de la Parada, the Royal Hunting Lodge outside of Madrid. In this lecture Margaret D. Carroll, Professor of Art at Wellesley College, argues that Rubens conceived of a number of these works as pairs—for example, the Rape of Hippodamia and the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis in the present exhibition—that served to provoke dialectical reflection on such themes as passion and restraint, order and chaos, chance and reason, and violence and tranquility.  Continue reading »

Creating “Sensing Place”

Join curators Mark C. Taylor, Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and Henry W. Art, Robert F. Rosenburg Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at Williams College, for the opening lecture of Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill. Sunday, July 10, 2016, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm. Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Image: Old… Continue reading »

THE ART OF FLAMENCO–performance and lecture

One of Spain’s greatest flamenco dancers, Belén Maya, presents a lecture and demonstration of the art of flamenco with guitarist José Luis Rodríguez and cantaor (singer) Alfonso Cid.   MEMBER22.00 per GENERAL ADMISSION25.00 per STUDENT5.00 per SUNDAY JUNE 12, 2016 3:00 pm-4:30 pm MICHAEL CONFORTI… Continue reading »

The Space Between

The Space Between, curated by Nina Wexelblatt MA ’16, disperses installations by seven artists in interstitial spaces on the MASS MoCA campus to explore ways we can actively inhabit the state of “just passing through” the nooks and crannies that typically separate exhibitions. Continue reading »

Judith M. Lenett Memorial Lecture

Julia Silverman, Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellow, Williams College M.A. Class of 2016, presents the results of her year-long conservation work in the 22nd Annual Lenett Lecture. Her project at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center (WACC) involves the research and conservation of three eighteenth-century engraved powder horns from the… Continue reading »

Objects of Orientalism: A Symposium

Convened by Mary Roberts and Marc Gotlieb, Objects of Orientalism is designed to open a new dialogue around orientalist visual practice in the second half of the nineteenth century, and to continue the methodological conversation around contemporary valences of the term. Saturday, April 30, 2016 9:00-5:30 Conforti Pavilion, 225… Continue reading »

Objects of Orientalism: A Symposium

Convened by Mary Roberts and Marc Gotlieb, Objects of Orientalism is designed to open a new dialogue around orientalist visual practice in the second half of the nineteenth century, and to continue the methodological conversation around contemporary valences of the term. Friday, April 29, 2016 1:00 PM-5:30 PM Conforti… Continue reading »

Collecting: An Afternoon with Jon Landau

Noted private collector Jon Landau, art dealer Andrew Butterfield, and former Clark Senior Curator Richard Rand discuss the collection of Renaissance and nineteenth-century painting and sculpture Landau has assembled over many years. Saturday, February 27, 2016 3-4:00 pm  Conforti Pavilion… Continue reading »

The Challenge of Surrealism

Christian Thorne moderates a panel discussion to mark the publication of The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, edited and translated by Susan H. Gillespie. Saturday, November 21  3-4pm Conforti Pavilion, The Clark Center… Continue reading »

Collecting for the Clark–Lecture and Exhibition Opening

Collecting for the Clark: Twenty Years of Acquisitions tells the stories of collectors who have donated objects to the museum and how these new objects enhance the existing collection. Lecture: Sunday September 25th 11:00am Clark Center, West Pavilion In the lecture, Clark curators provide an overview of how these… Continue reading »

A Clark Conversation with Mieke Bal

The Clark’s Research and Academic Program presents a conversation with Cultural theorist and critic Mieke Bal. Her film, “Madame B,” airs at the Clark on Wednesday, September 23 at 5:30 pm. Thursday, September 24th, 5:30pm, Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill… Continue reading »

Art / The Law: A Clark Colloquium

Taking as its premise the fundamental incongruence between the epistemologies on which art and law depend, this colloquium explores the possibilities generated when thinking of the two in parallel, conflict, and convergence. By Invitation Only. Friday and Saturday, September 18th & 19th, Clark Center, Carswell Room… Continue reading »

Object Workshop with Kevin Murphy

Students meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill at 4 pm, then move to WCMA to view Kevin’s show of Whistler prints. Plan to bike or car-pool from Lunder Center to WCMA for the second part of the workshop, which ends at 6pm. 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 »

Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art

Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art, curated by Alexis Goodin MA '98 and James Pilgrim MA '12, explores the line between innovation and imitation, featuring fifty prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture created by other artists. Continue reading »

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