UPCOMING EVENTS

LOCALS AT THE LUNDER: SAMARA LUBELSKI AND MARCIA BASSETT

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 5 PM
LUNDER CENTER'S MOLTZ TERRACE

Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett have collaborated together over the years, exploring drones and wavering frequencies with violin, guitar, and electronics. Their music is meditative yet playful, inviting and encircling, and lush like the verdant surroundings they will perform in.

Wednesday Knudsen and Kryssi Battalene open this outdoor concert on the Lunder Center's Moltz Terrace.

Free. Bring a picnic and your own seating. More information.

BOOK TALK: AS IT TURNS OUT—ALICE WOHL AND DANNY FIELDS IN CONVERSATION

THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 5:30 PM
AUDITORIUM

Alice Sedgwick Wohl, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts resident and independent art historian, discusses her new book, As It Turns Out, a memoir of her relationship with her sister Edie Sedgwick.

Danny Fields, a punk-era pioneer, music impresario and friend of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, joins Wohl in discussing her complicated relationship with the famous “It Girl,” as well as the politics of Andy Warhol’s Factory and the unique bond that Warhol and Edie shared.

Free. More information.

GRADUATE PROGRAM CLASS OF 2023 SYMPOSIUM

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 9 AM
AUDITORIUM

Graduating Masters students in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art offer public presentations about their specific focuses.

The presentations are the culmination of the two-year graduate program and address important topics in the history of art, from abstraction in American landscape painting, to a study of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, to prurient fantasies in the marginalia of the Rutland Psalter.

Free. More information.

“OUTSIDER ART” IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: KAIRA M. CABAÑAS AND RAPHAEL KOENIG IN CONVERSATION

SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2 PM
AUDITORIUM

How do the categories of “outsider art,” patient art, and art brut relate to one another, and our understanding of the creative process?

Scholars Kaira M. Cabañas and Raphael Koenig host a conversation about art and mental health in a global context, in conjunction with the exhibition Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch. Cabañas serves as the associate dean of academic programs and publications for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) at the National Gallery of Art, and Raphael Koenig is the visiting assistant professor in comparative literature at the University of Toulouse II and co-author of the Portals publication.

Free. More information.