You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside regulars and friendly new faces, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet—in the […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage
In 2020 the Clark opened Ground/work, a one-year exhibition of monumental sculpture by six artists that was situated in the landscape surrounding the museum. Ground/work 2025 once again features specially commissioned works located across the Clark’s campus. This sequel exhibition focuses on global conceptions of craft, defined as the physical process by which artists transform the world around […]
Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
This summer, Berkshire Botanical Garden (BBG) will transform into a haven for artistic reverie with DayDream, a new exhibition featuring works by some of the most renowned names in contemporary and modern art. DayDream will run in BBG’s Leonhardt Galleries, inviting visitors to escape the everyday and immerse themselves in the boundless possibilities of the […]
Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
This streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s—where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. Based on the critically acclaimed play that inspired the now classic film, this streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC) is a uniquely Irish-American company that is the high watermark for their art form. Called 'sophisticated and commanding' by the Los Angeles Times and 'impossibly complex' by The New York Times, TIDC makes their Jacob’s Pillow debut this summer, presenting everything you expect, but like nothing you’d imagine. Performing in […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 — to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband's astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. With the odds and the whole of […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment