MANTON FILM SERIES: GREAT BRITISH FILMS—THE LAVENDER HILL MOB

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 6 PM
MANTON RESEARCH CENTER, AUDITORIUM

The Lavender Hill Mob is a comedy that features everything Britain's Ealing Studio is famous for—loveable crooks, class conflict, London streets, avuncular bobbies, pratfalls, slapstick, tea, buns, and Alec Guinness—but with a Hitchcock-inspired thriller plot.

Guinness and Stanley Holloway play the bumbling suburbanites whose plot to hijack a van full of gold bullion and smuggle it abroad disguised as Eiffel Tower paperweights leads to hijinks and hysteria. The New York Times gave the film a glowing review on its 1951 release, calling it  "one of the wackiest crime stories" of the year. More than 60 years later, the laughs keep coming.

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Run time: 1 hour, 21 minutes.

BOOK TALK: THE FOREST—A FABLE OF AMERICA IN THE 1830S

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1 PM
MANTON RESEARCH CENTER; AUDITORIUM

Alexander Nemerov’s new book, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, is part truth, part fiction—a series of tales centering on a visionary experience in the last years of America as a heavily forested land. The Wall Street Journal celebrates The Forest, claiming "after you've read this book, most other cultural histories will seem as stale as the straw on the floor."

Alexander Nemerov is the author of many books, including Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, short-listed for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Prize in Biography.

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A book signing follows the talk. Copies of The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s will be available for purchase at the talk and in the Museum Store.

REFLECTIONS: INTROSPECTIVE GALLERY TALK

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 11 AM
PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERIES

In this monthly gallery experience, visitors are invited to look contemplatively as a way to engage with works of art from the Clark’s collection. With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions.

Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection.

Free with gallery admission. Advance registration required; capacity is limited. More information.

FRESH TAKES: EMERGING ART HISTORIANS EXPLORE THE CLARK COLLECTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 12 PM
PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERIES

Enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark’s permanent collection!

A Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object (or two) in the collection with the perspective of new scholarship. Discussion—and lively debate—encouraged.

Free with gallery admission. 
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THE MET: LIVE IN HD—X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 12:55 PM
MANTON RESEARCH CENTER; AUDITORIUM

Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast enlivens the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, stars as Malcom X in this visionary, Afrofuturist-inspired retelling.

Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which draws upon a variety of musical influences—including jazz, gospel, non-Western, African, European classical, Indonesian gamelan, and experimental styles.

Tickets $25 ($22 members, $18 students, $5 children 15 and under). Advance registration encouraged; capacity is limited. No refunds.

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