KIDS' WEEK AT THE CLARK

HAPPENING NOW!

Kids' Week offers families fun art-making activities and opportunities to connect with art, ideas, and nature. Pick up a set of complimentary colored pencils and a drawing pad for sketching or journaling, design and send unique postcards to friends at our new postcard station, or hike our 140-acre campus!

The best part? There's something at the Clark for everyone, so parents will have fun too! Remember, admission is free for all through March 31!

CONNECTING TO OUR COMMUNITY

The Clark is proud to be a new member of the Berkshire Black Economic Council, a local organization based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts that seeks to foster Black businesses and introduce policies to spur economic development in the Berkshires and the Commonwealth. We look forward to learning from and working with the BBEC to strengthen our community. For more information on their projects, click here.

CLASSIFICATION AND CONQUEST IN THE NAPOLEONIC DESCRIPTION DE L’ÉGYPTE

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 6 PM
AUDITORIUM

In conjunction with Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Liza Oliver, associate professor of art at Wellesley College, discusses the Description de l’Égypte (1809–1820)—a monumental compilation of engravings and essays about the pharaonic past, modern state, and natural history of Egypt that ushered in the discipline of modern Egyptology as we know it.

Free. Click here to find out more.

MANTON 50TH ANNIVERSARY FILM SERIES: FILMS OF 1973—AMARCORD

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 6 PM
AUDITORIUM

In celebration of the 1973 opening year of its Manton Research Center building, the Clark presents five film screenings as part of its Manton 50th Anniversary Film Series: Films of 1973.

This Thursday, the Clark screens Amarcord, Federico Fellini's blockbuster. Recreating a vanished world haloed with the glow of memory, Fellini focuses on recreating his hometown of Rimini and depecting its daily life as a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political deception. Vincent Canby from The New York Times called Amarcord "marvelous"—"extravagently funny" and "a film of exhilarating beauty."

Free. Click here to find out more.

LONDON NATIONAL THEATRE: THE CRUCIBLE

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1 PM
AUDITORIUM

"Spectacular" – Time Out
"Immensely powerful" – The i
"A five-star scorcher" – Sunday Times

Speak of the devil and he appears. A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power. Arthur Miller’s gripping parable of power and its abuse returns in an urgent new staging by director Lyndsey Turner (Under Milk Wood, Top Girls), starring Erin Doherty (The Crown).

This broadcast presentation of a live-to-film performance from London's West End is part of the Clark's on-going celebration of the Manton Research Center's 50th anniversary.

Tickets are $18, $16 for members, $14 for students, and $10 for children under 15. Click here to purchase tickets.

HOW-TO HISTORY: DRAWING MANUALS FROM THE LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 11 AM–12 PM
MANTON STUDY CENTER FOR WORKS ON PAPER

Gain a new perspective on how artists and amateurs learned to draw through time with an up-close look at drawing treatises and tutorials from Dürer to the digital age. Lunde Fellow Sarah Grandin and Library Director Andrea Puccio will be on hand to lead the exploration of these manuals.

Free.