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WE ARE OPEN!

The Clark's doors are now open and it's wonderful to welcome you back.

Visiting the Clark will be a different experience, but rest assured that we are doing everything we can to make your visit as pleasant as possible while still being very careful to ensure that we are operating in compliance with all of the Massachusetts guidelines. Over the last many months, we have been making detailed plans to ensure that we will be able to provide the safest possible environment in our galleries, grounds, and public spaces. We've posted details about the new visiting plans HERE to let you know what to expect when you visit. Click here to purchase timed tickets.

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TODAY

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August 09, 2020
Galleries 10 am–5 pm
Library Temporarily Closed
Ground/work Roundtable Conversation

Thursday August 13, 2020 12:30 PM
Member Exhibition Highlights Talk: Lines from Life

Thursday August 20, 2020 3:00 PM
Summer Book Club: A Room with a View

Wednesday August 26, 2020 7:00 PM
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals Book Launch

Thursday August 27, 2020 12:30 PM
Ground/work

Saturday To Be Announced 10 am

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Lines from Life: French Drawings from the Diamond Collection
Lines from Life: French Drawings from the Diamond Collection
OPEN Through December 13

In celebration of the generous, ongoing gift of Herbert and Carol Diamond, this exhibition explores an array of figure drawings by leading nineteenth-century French artists.

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Pia Camil: Velo Revelo
Pia Camil: Velo Revelo
OPEN Through January 3, 2021

This yearlong exhibition in public spaces around the Clark features a new, site specific installation by Pia Camil, as well as two of the artist’s large-scale sculptures in fabric.

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Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
OPEN THROUGH OCTOBER 25

Lin May Saeed focuses on the lives of animals and human-animal relations. The Clark present’s Saeed’s first museum solo exhibition at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

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GROUND/WORK
GROUND/WORK
OPENING SEPTEMBER 2020

The Clark's first outdoor exhibition features site-responsive works by contemporary artists Kelly Akashi, Nairy Baghramian, Jennie C. Jones, Eva LeWitt, Analia Saban, and Haegue Yang.

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Clark Connects Virtual Programming
Clark Connects Virtual Programming

While our galleries are closed and public programs temporarily suspended, the Clark's programs have moved to a new virtual format in our Clark Connects initiative.

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RAP in the archives
RAP in the archives

All of the public programs and seminars for RAP are cancelled until at least September 1. In the interim, the Research and Academic program is posting a series of past lectures given by Clark fellows.

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EVENTS

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Ground/work Roundtable Conversation
Ground/work Roundtable Conversation
August 13, 2020

With installation of the Clark’s first outdoor exhibition underway, Ground/work guest curators Molly Epstein and Abigail Ross Goodman join a roundtable conversation with Hardymon Director Olivier Mesl ...

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Member Exhibition Highlights Talk: Lines from Life
Member Exhibition Highlights Talk: Lines from Life
August 20, 2020

Join Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs in this virtual, live talk about the Clark’s newest exhibition, Lines from Life: French Drawings from the Diamond Collection. Anne ...

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Summer Book Club: A Room with a View
Summer Book Club: A Room with a View
August 26, 2020

Join us on a Zoom call from the comfort of your own home to discuss classic novels with Clark staff and fellow book lovers. Selections this summer feature works of fiction that relate to favorite wor ...

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Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals Book Launch
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals Book Launch
August 27, 2020

Clark editor Kevin Bicknell and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger mark the release of the catalogue for Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals with a discussion of the book’s form and contents. ...

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Member Rare Books Talk: Derby Days
Member Rare Books Talk: Derby Days
September 10, 2020

Join us for this live, virtual rare book talk as the Clark celebrates the rescheduled run of the 2020 Kentucky Derby with a look at horses found in the library's special collections. Sterling Clark ra ...

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Clark Connects with Bénédicte Boisseron
Clark Connects with Bénédicte Boisseron
September 17, 2020

Bénédicte Boisseron, associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, discusses animality and otherness. Boisseron, who is the author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and t ...

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Summer Book Club: The Code of the Woosters
Summer Book Club: The Code of the Woosters
September 30, 2020

Join us on a Zoom call from the comfort of your own home to discuss classic novels with Clark staff and fellow book lovers. Selections this summer feature works of fiction that relate to favorite wor ...

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Member Permanent Collection Talk: Porcelain, up close and personal
Member Permanent Collection Talk: Porcelain, up close and personal
October 22, 2020

In 18th century Europe, porcelain was so valuable it was known as "white gold." Learn why this material that today we take for granted was considered so special. Curator of decorative arts Kathleen Mo ...

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Members' Holiday Shopping Weekend
Members' Holiday Shopping Weekend
December 5, 2020

Members receive 25 percent off all merchandise purchased in the Clark Museum Store during this special two-day event.   ...

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Members' Holiday Shopping Weekend
Members' Holiday Shopping Weekend
December 6, 2020

Members receive 25 percent off all merchandise purchased in the Clark Museum Store during this special two-day event.   ...

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

The Clark Art Institute condemns the persistent systemic racism that has fueled senseless brutality against Black people and people of color. We are outraged and saddened by the grievous murders we continue to witness. We are also appalled by the structural racism in our public service systems that has led to disproportionate losses suffered by Black communities during the pandemic. We stand in solidarity against racism in any form. Black lives matter.
 
Committing to change is the only way we can honor the legacies of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others. We cannot look away from the truth of our nation’s simmering bigotry or from the institutional inequity that underlies cultural organizations like ours.
 
As a museum and a center for research, the Clark has much to learn and much to do in changing our institution in support of our mission and in service to our communities. Although our staff is working on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, we have not done enough. We have a sense of immediacy and a deep commitment to making change happen, including hiring practices, programming, and expanding the ways we use and talk about art.
 
We live in troubled times. We can do better. We will do better.

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