Over 25 years in comedy, Gary Gulman has established himself as an eminent performer and peerless writer. A product of Boston, Gulman has been a scholarship college football player, an accountant, and a high school teacher. He has made countless television appearances as both a comedian and an actor. Gulman has made five masterful TV […]
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 […]
Berenice Abbott’s Modern Lens begins with Abbott’s earliest portrait photography, taken in 1920s Paris while working as an assistant in the legendary Man Ray’s studio. Writers, musicians, artists, publishers, and socialites—many of whom lived visibly queer lives, like Abbott herself—all found themselves looking through her discerning lens as she captured a sense of the rapidly changing […]
This non-chronological survey of Noguchi’s work across media presents some of his most compelling engagements with time. The exhibition traces Noguchi’s interventions in the long march of geologic time, his explorations into the life cycles of natural and industrial materials, his meditations on memory and the relationship between the enduring and ephemeral, and his fluid […]
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
A timeless work, the rock opera is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events but seen, unusually, through the eyes of Judas Iscariot. Loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Superstar follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life. The story, told entirely through song, explores […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment