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Massachusetts
Clark Art Institute Upcoming Events - July 26, 2023
Arts and Entertainment
July 27, 2023
From: Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteWRITING CLOSER: MOODY NATURE
FRIDAY, JULY 28, 10:30 AM
MANTON STUDY CENTER FOR WORKS ON PAPER
The Clark debuts a new program in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper. "Writing Closer" invites writers of all experience and skill levels to work independently on thematic selections from the Clark’s collection of prints, drawings, and photographs.
This month's session focuses on “Moody Nature” in conjunction with the summer exhibition, Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth. Whether it’s poetry or prose, fiction or non-, and a story-in-progress or something entirely new, allow the works to inspire your writing!
Free. More information. Advance registration required; capacity is limited.
Basic materials will be provided. Only graphite pencils are allowed in the Study Center and museum galleries.
FRIDAYS@3: CHAPTERS OF A FLOATING LIFE
FRIDAY, JULY 28, 3 PM
AUDITORIUM
In partnership with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Clark hosts readings of new plays and works-in-progress. Spend the afternoon with a play in development, performed by professional actors.
This week is Chapters of a Floating Life by Clarence Coo, the winner of the 2023 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Two couples from China in the wake of the Second World War—one navigating life in uptown New York City and one facing the day-to-day reality of keeping a Chinatown restaurant in business—converge when the two women find each other in Central Park.
Tickets at the WTF box office: $15.
Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
OPENING LECTURE: PRINTED RENAISSANCE
SATURDAY, JULY 29, 11 AM
AUDITORIUM
How do we remember the arts of the Italian Renaissance? Why have we become intimately familiar with the names and works of such creative figures as Raphael and Michelangelo?
Yuefeng Wu, graduate student curator of Printed Renaissance, shows how the practice of print reproduction shaped and created the history of Renaissance painting in this opening lecture.
Free. More information. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
TOGETHER: AN OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, JULY 29, 6:30 PM
FERNÁNDEZ TERRACE
Choreographer Kim Brandt presents Together, an outdoor performance created in dialogue with Elizabeth Atterbury’s exhibition Oracle Bones and the Clark’s natural setting.
Using movement to explore the multitude of ways in which we are both interdependent and independent, Together considers how the relationship between time, space, scale and motion informs our understanding of place.
Performers include Martita Abril, Courtney Cooke, Greer Dworman, Lydia Okrent, Anna Adams Stark, and Nora Stephens.
Free. More information. Bring a picnic and your own seating.
In case of inclement weather, the performance moves to Sunday, July 30.
This project is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
LOCALS AT THE LUNDER: TASHI AND MILAREPA DORJI & MARIE CARROLL
SUNDAY, JULY 30, 3 PM
LUNDER CENTER'S MOLTZ TERRACE
The Bhutanese American father-son guitar duo Tashi and Milarepa Dorji bring their adventurous guitar improvisation to their first live show as a duo.
Marie Carroll is a sound artist, improviser, koto player, and cellist. Her work experiments with timbre and texture through the construction of liminal soundscapes.
Free. More information. Bring a picnic and your own seating.
WORKS ON PAPER HIGHLIGHTS TALK: DRAWN ECOLOGIES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1 PM
MANTON STUDY CENTER FOR WORKS ON PAPER
In conjunction with the Clark’s summer exhibition of contemporary art, Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, Lunde Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin discusses eight drawings that face and frame the natural world.
From Claude Lorrain's idyllic valleys to Winslow Homer’s treacherous shorelines, and from Edgar Degas’s morbid fox study to Rosa Bonheur’s stately bovine portraits, the selected works chart the breadth of artists' positions vis-à-vis their environments and cohabitants.
Free. More information. Capacity is limited on a first-come, first-serve basis.