In Germany between the wars, Paul Goesch drew doorways into growing, bright, living places — and the Clark is reviving them this spring.
Read articleBerkshire art catches momentum in 2023
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here and curators are planning new shows — from wood-fired ceramic vessels to storm waves …
Read articleWe made these memories for ourselves — #berkshireweekend
What can we imagine for 2023? … Looking ahead, I’m hoping for a rise in returning energy. 2022 has held quiet moments of intense beauty.
Read articlePromenades explore 18th century France at the Clark
In a garden in Paris, a woman sits drawing the petals of hyacinths. She is shading in curves and striations, down to the folds along the tips and the green nubs of calyxes …
Read articleRodin comes to America — in Women’s hands
Psyche and Eros hold each other on a summer morning at the Clark Art Institute’s summer show. They are the first of Rodin’s sculptures to cross the ocean, and when they reached the states in 1893 they were shut away.
Read articleHave you felt wet clay or paint in your hands? #this weekend
Dark streaks across the surface like water on sandstone or ink in manga. Tauba Auerbach says she will graze the wet paint on the canvas with a rounded tool to make these ‘quivering … emergent forms.’
Read articleTomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities
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 …
Read articleExpeditions for a sunny afternoon
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 …
Read articleColor prints fill the senses from Japan to France
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.
Read articleJapanese prints probe a contemporary world
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.
Read article