FILM AND ART: MUR MURS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7:30 PM
AUDITORIUM

After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs (1982, 82 minutes) is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.

Free; no registration required.

FRESH TAKES: EMERGING ART HISTORIANS EXPLORE THE CLARK COLLECTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 12 PM

Take a new look at old favorites in the Clark’s permanent collection in conversation with a Williams College art history graduate student. A student in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art shares their thoughts on an object in the collection through the perspective of new scholarship. Discussion—and maybe even lively debate—encouraged.

Free with gallery admission. Meet in the Museum Pavilion.

FILM AND ART: F FOR FAKE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7:30 PM

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In F for Fake (1975), a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits by the world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and the equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes—not the least of whom is Welles himself. F for Fake is an inspired prank and a clever examination of the place of duplicity in cinema and art.

Free. Run time: 88 minutes

OPENING LECTURE: ON THE HORIZON—ART AND ATMOSPHERE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 11 AM
VIRTUAL

On the opening day of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century, exhibition curator Rebecca Szantyr, and former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of the Clark's newest exhibition. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.

Free. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required. Click here to register.