Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed

CLOSING OCTOBER 31

It has been more than forty years since an American art museum has shown the work of sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, and the Clark’s exhibition this summer provides a fresh perspective.

Erin Shirreff: Remainders

OPEN THROUGH JANUARY 2022

This yearlong exhibition in public spaces around the Clark examines Erin Shirreff’s practice and its fascination with the mythmaking behind art history.

Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints

COMING SOON
OPENING NOVEMBER 6

This exhibition explores two parallel Japanese print-making movements through the Clark’s collection of shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga works.

Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate over Colors

COMING SOON
OPENING DECEMBER 11

Exploring the surprising but steady opposition to printed color in nineteenth-century France, Hue & Cry showcases the Clark’s extraordinary holdings of French color prints.

Permanent Collection

Revisit an old favorite or discover something new in our permanent collection.

Living with Les Lalanne: A Conversation with Brian McCarthy and Edith Dicconson

October 23, 2021

Kathleen Morris, curator of Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed, moderates a conversation between Kasmin gallerist Edith Dicconson and designer Brian McCarthy, both of whom knew Cla ...

Almost Forgotten: Marginalized Histories in Bahamian Art (1950–1960s)

October 26, 2021

Circling themes of marginality, oral history, and cultural heritage, this talk examines the urgency of traditional and emerging archival practices and addresses a shift in the framing of historical na ...

Member Talk: Saying Farewell to Les Lalanne

October 27, 2021

SOLD OUT. As the Clark’s Lalanne exhibition draws to a close, project curator Kathleen Morris will share some favorite stories of her work on the exhibition, including archival discoveries, “aha” mome ...

OLLI at the Clark: Artistic Visionaries: Frank Gehry and Christo

October 27, 2021

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) brings its popular education programming to the Clark with a series of five lectures on two of the dominant figures in twenty-first-century art and archite ...

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

October 30, 2021

SOLD OUT. Sorry, no walk-in tickets available. The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts. Simulcasts feature the full performan ...

Halloween at the Clark

October 31, 2021

Join in some Halloween fun! We're offering free admission for everyone who comes dressed up like an artwork from the collection or one of our exhibitions. From 11 am to 2 pm, enjoy these special ac ...

Advice, Revision, and Obliteration in the Carolingian Manuscript of the Utrecht Psalter

November 2, 2021

If the Utrecht Psalter (UP-Utrecht Univ lib Ms 32) can be described as a performative, lively manuscript with active, dynamically sketched images that set good against evil, prophet against people, fa ...

New Parents Gallery Talk

November 5, 2021

Join other new parents/guardians and their infants for a guided visit in the permanent collection galleries. This free program is best suited for adults with pretoddlers. Strollers and front-carrying ...

Opening Lecture for Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints

November 6, 2021

In this opening lecture by exhibition curator Oliver Ruhl, discover two distinct but intertwining currents in 20-century Japanese printmaking, shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga, and how artists from this pe ...

Notes on a Decolonial Art History in Latin American and Latinx Art in the 20th and 21st Century 

November 9, 2021

This project places gender, race, and ethnicity at its center, and its hemispheric view aims to expand the notion of Latin America to include the diaspora—Latinx art in the United States. Including a ...