Mother's Day Brunch

Sunday, May 12, 10:30 am
Treat your mom! Make Mother's Day special with a gourmet brunch. Seating is at 10:30 am. Reserve by Thursday, May 9.

Share your love of art!

Clark members receive a 10% discount on gift memberships! Your gift includes a festively wrapped mug featuring a swatch from the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection. Call 413 458 0425 to purchase.

Try our Multimedia Guide!

Connect more deeply with art using a multimedia guide, available at the admission desk ($5/$3 members). Or, download the Clark's mobile app onto your smartphone using iTunes or Google Play™.

Renoir: The Body,
The Senses

Opens June 8, 2019
Over the course of his long career, Pierre-Auguste Renoir continually turned to the human figure for artistic inspiration. In recognition of the centenary of Renoir’s death, the Clark Art Institute and the Kimbell Art Museum present Renoir: The Body, The Senses. This daring exhibition is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form, and it reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism into luminous Impressionism, culminating in the modern classicism of his last decades. Read the full press release. 

Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet

Opens June 8, 2019
Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s acclaimed 2001 sound installation, The Forty Part Motet, deconstructs Thomas Tallis’s sixteenth-century choral work Spem in alium (Hope in any other) by assigning each of the forty voices to a single freestanding speaker in the gallery. Read the full press release.

Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow

Opens July 4, 2019
Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe was a talented American modernist, whose paintings and prints explore realism and abstraction in the service of a distinctive artistic style. On view at the Clark July 4–October 6, 2019, Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow assesses Ida’s work and life, as well as the sibling rivalry between Ida and her well-known sister, Georgia O'Keeffe. Read the full press release. 

Grand Challenges of Art History

Saturday, April 27, 3 pm
The Research and Academic Program presents, “Grand Challenges of Art History: Digital/Computational Methods and Social Art History,” a public conversation among leaders in the field about the digital humanities and the possibilities of a digital art history.

In Quest of the Gorgon's Head

Tuesday, April 30, 5:30 pm
Clark Fellow Celeste Olalquiaga presents, “In Quest of the Gorgon's Head.” The terrifying Medusa of mythical fame is a reinterpretation of an archaic apotropaion, or protective emblem, the Gorgoneion. Greek classic culture transformed this protective figure into a destructive one, creating a paradoxical icon of female fury and power.

ArtWeek at the Clark: Works on Paper

Thursday, May 2, 1-4 pm
Visit a special, one-day pop-up display in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, where Curatorial Assistant Kristie Couser presents a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from the permanent collection.

What's Happening at the Clark

April – June 2019
Learn about upcoming exhibitions, lectures, family events and more! Download a PDF of our calendar of events.