DRAWING CLOSER: LEISURE

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 10:30 AM
MANTON STUDY CENTER FOR WORKS ON PAPER

Grab your sketchbooks and draw with us!

The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper welcomes artists of all experience and skill levels to enjoy an open art session inspired by works in the Clark's collection. March's theme, "Leisure," features prints, drawings, and photographs that illustrate the joys of downtime.

No experience is necessary to enjoy this day! Admission is free and basic materials are provided. Only graphite pencils are allowed in the Study Center and museum galleries.

Advanced registration is required; capacity is limited. Click here to register.

FRESH TAKES: EMERGING ART HISTORIANS EXPLORE THE CLARK COLLECTION

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 12 PM

Sometimes you have to shift your perspective to see new wonders!

A Williams College art history graduate student leads a conversation about an object in the Clark's permanent collection, offering their thoughts through the perspective of new scholarship. Discussion—and lively debate—is encouraged!

Free with gallery admission. Meet in the Museum Pavilion.

START WITH ART: FACES AND FEELINGS

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 10 AM

Get your preschoolers off to a creative start!

Our Start with Art program offers themed painting talks, gallery guides, and art-making activities specially designed for this age group. Art-making can be messy...please dress for the mess!

Free. No registration is required.

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM LECTURE: INVISIBLE HANDS

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 5:30 PM
AUDITORIUM

Margaret S. Graves, the Florence Gould Foundation Fellow in the Research and Academic Program (Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University in Bloomington), discusses craft skills in the Middle East. These skills—usually portrayed as having died out in the nineteenth century—were, in fact, redirected toward a new market generated by the colonial project: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.

By recognizing faking and forgery in the market for Middle Eastern ceramics as skilled forms of craft and as sites of Indigenous participation in global capitalism, this project reveals the challenges that colonial modernity presents to the discipline of art history via the objects that moved through it and were remade in its image.

Free, with a reception in the Manton Research Center's reading room starting at 5 pm. No registration required. Click here to find out more.

MANTON 50TH ANNIVERSARY FILM SERIES: FILMS OF 1973—DAY FOR NIGHT

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 6 PM
AUDITORIUM

This affectionate farce from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of moviemaking is known as one of his most beloved films. Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama, the shooting of which is plagued by the whims of a neurotic actor, an aging but still forceful Italian diva, and a British ingenue haunted by personal scandal. Day for Night is anchored by robust performances and a sparkling score by the legendary Georges Delerue.

This film series is presented in celebration of the 1973 opening year of the Manton Research Center building.

Free. Click here to find out more.
Run time is 1 hour, 56 minutes.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—LOHENGRIN

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 12 PM
AUDITORIUM

"Tremendous...outstanding singing and indelible images"
Financial Times
"A shining musical performance"
The New York Times

Richard Wagner's soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant and highly acclaimed return to the Met stage after seventeen years. Director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner's breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a cast led by tenor Piotr Becza?a, soprano Tamara Wilson, and soprano Christine Goerke.

The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, screened in full high-definition in the Clark's spacious auditorium.

Tickets are $25 ($22 for members, $18 for students with valid ID, and $7 for children 10 and under). Advance reservations are strongly suggested. Click here to purchase tickets.

NOTE EARLY START TIME FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. Run time is 4 hours, 55 minutes.