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Clark Art Institute

Kate Abbott
Wanga Neges appears in Tomm El-Saieh's 'Imaginary City,' a solo show of large paintings in vivid abstract color, at the Clark Art Institute.
Tomm El-Saieh
Visual Arts

Tomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities

May 25, 2022
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From a distance, the colors shimmer like a crazy quilt of neighborhoods seen from the air, scarlet and blue and yellow, as though the houses were painted as bright as tropical birds …

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Eggs from GPR Craft Products in Bennington, Vt., catch the sunlight on a winter day.
Visual Arts

Expeditions for a sunny afternoon

January 27, 2022
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The eggs come from a farm stand smaller than a chicken coop, and I almost missed it. The sign caught me as I was bowling south down Route 7 — shagbark hickory syrup …

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Clouds and sun pattern the sky over the Clark Art Institute.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Color prints fill the senses from Japan to France

January 20, 2022
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Mary Cassatt brings an Intaglio color print into Hue and Cry, the Clark Art Institute’s newest winter show, inspired by Japanese artists and woodblock-prints.

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Saito Kiyoshi's print Gion in Kyoto shows a figure walking from light into shadow in a passage from a city street, in bold and earthy colors. Press photo courtesy of the Clark Art Institute
Saito Kiyoshi / Clark Art Institute
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Japanese prints probe a contemporary world

November 10, 2021
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Saitō Kiyoshi’s Autumn in Nanzen-Ji (1971) is not a classical inkbrush painting, and it’s not a Kandinsky — but Oliver Ruhl thinks it may be kin to both.

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Kawase Hasui's Late Autumn in Itchikawa appears at the Clark Art Institute.
Kawase Hasui / The Clark
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Japanese artists warm up the weekend (November 10 newsletter)

November 10, 2021
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Kiyoshi Saito is walking through a street lined with machiya, tall, lean wooden houses. Afternoon light slants down an alley-way, and he can see someone in silhouette walking from the shadow into the sun …

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New York artist and muralist Gaia has painted a mural in honor of Lue Gim Gong, horticulturalist and Celestial, who came from China as a young man and worked in the mills in North Adams before moving to Florida.
Mural by Gaia
Visual Arts

ArtWeek Berkshires is here in full colors (Sept 15 newsletter)

September 16, 2021
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Murals and wood-fired ceramics, Japanese Shiburi tie-dyed cloth, graphic novels and living walls — the county is filling up this week with events and shows and painters out in the open, in ArtWeek Berkshires.

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Flame lights a hillside above a lake in Nikolai Astrup, Midsummer Eve Bonfire. Woodblock before 1917, private collection. Image courtesy of the Clark Art Institute
Nikolai Astrup
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Nikolai Astrup revives the spirit of Norway

June 22, 2021
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It’s summer solstice, and the bonfires are lit. People from up the valley are piling tall cones of green branches. The flames churn golden and flow downhill over a glacial outcrop and coil like a dragon around the embers.

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François-Xavier Lalanne's Rhinoceros desk stands ponderously at the fore in Nature Transformed at the Clark Art Institute.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Why is a rhinoceros like a writing desk? (May 14 newsletter)

May 13, 2021
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The rhinoceros is arresting — 600 pounds of bronze standing four-square at the door. French artists and writers seem fascinated by rhinos half a century ago, and François-Xavier Lalanne cast this one into a life-sized sculpture.

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François-Xavier Lalanne's carp hovers over the reflecting pool in Nature Transformed at the Clark Art Institute.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Les Lalanne cast humor in bronze

May 12, 2021
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Copper and bronze shapes appear around corners, like the veined rippling cup of a giant cabbage leaf … Sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne are known around the world for their whimsical organic lifeforms.

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Caroline O'Donnell and Martin Miller's architectural model at Art OMI creates structures from lattice-like walls.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Coral fountains and pearl pools: Berkshire museums turn outdoors

September 16, 2020
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Stone blocks stand in rough steps, the color of quartz and clam shells … Art OMI has installed new work this summer, as museums are adapting their gardens and grounds, virtual content and outdoor artwork.

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