Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

The BSO and Tanglewood are making you an offer you cannot refuse. The season long Grass Pass offers admission to most events. The 45/45 combines two lawn tickets with two tickets to the Clark Art Institute. There are also hotel/ back stage and ticket offers. Check it out.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is going all out to make the 2009 season a boffo hit for Tanglewood. Jazz singer Tony Bennett has been added on July 21. Sheryl Crow will join James Taylor. The Clark Art Institute will join Tanglewood for a special twofer ticket promotion. This is just a sample of the exciting news.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program has earned an international reputation as a foremost center for advancing the study of visual arts and for educating the next generation of art historians, professors, and museum directors and curators. The program engages the world's most creative and innovative visual arts scholars, from Clark Fellows who travel to Williamstown from throughout the world to pursue their research while in residence at the Clark, to prominent participants in pioneering international research collaborations. Lectures by Clark Fellows are free.

For the first time in 15 years the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is showing all of the works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in its collection. This is an intimately scaled exhibition of mostly works on paper with just a few paintings. There is a lot to absorb so plan to spend some time at the museum.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will celebrate the achievements of women artists in conjunction with the Berkshires-widerecognition of International Women's Day and its 2009 theme, "The Power of Women in the Arts." Thirteen prints, drawings, and photographs created by women will be featured in the exhibition Women's Work on view February 21 through April 19. The lectures "Women at the Clark," on March 11, and "Have There Really Been No Great Women Artists?" on March 25, both at 7 pm, examine the Clark's co-founder Francine, the women artists represented in the Clark's collection, and feminist art history.

During the dead of winter in the Berkshires we always enjoy the fabulous series of parties The Clark After Dark. There is always an evocative theme and this time it is a night to click your heels and clap your hands for Viva Flamenco. Expect tapas and sangria for an affordable fun evening in Williamstown on Friday, February 20.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has acquired a nineteenth-century collector's album of prints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies. Widely considered to be Turner's "visual manifesto" on the art of landscape.

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. is one the best endowed small museums in the U.S. Through its association with Williams College the Clark offers a wide range of lectures and symposia that are available to the general public.

In the last decade, universities and museums have had star architects create and renovate. Several prominent projects are now underway with high expectations. They stretch from Boston to the Berkshires. Like the Field of Dreams film axiom, "if you build it, they will come," apparently, museums feel the same way. Part I of three parts.

Since opening in 1955, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has been distinguished by its quality collections, the depth of its research programs, and the natural beauty of its rustic setting. Working with Pritzker Prize–winning architect Tadao Ando to develop a campus plan that enhances the Institute's setting, expands facilities and reconfigures its galleries, the Clark has recently introduced a star museum building by a star architect.

The awesome array of Berkshire arts events in July is astounding. Our theater, music and dance companies create their schedules one by one, but taken together it's going to be one sensational Summer Festival right here in our own backyard. Enjoy.

Philippe de Montbello joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still a graduate student in 1963. Except for a hiatus of four years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston he spent his entire career at the Met and has been its director since 1977. This week he announced plans to retire.

The array of holiday treats taking place in the Berkshires has grown, and is more eclectic than ever.

For the past three summer seasons Roger Rees and the Williamstown Theatre Festival have collaborated with the Clark Art Institute. Last night Rees read a selection of letters by Claude Monet.

The Manton Foundation gives Sir Edwin Manton's superb collection of British masters

A guide to the major music festivals of the Berkshires and environs with links to all schedules.

The Clark's fall offerings include new drawings, prints and a photograph, and Alpine views by Alexandre Calame and other Swiss artists of the 19th century. For this important exhibiton we offer two reviews from different perspectives.

The summer long special exhibition of the collections of the feauding brothers Clark, Sterling and Stephen, closes soon but will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art next summer.