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April 2008

November 10, 2007 - May 28, 2008
Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, MA
LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel
A burgeoning art form with roots planted firmly in history, graphic novels, or long-form comic books, have inspired the interest of the literary establishment and a growing number of readers. For today's aficionados, graphic novels, with their antiheroes and visual appeal, are positioned to usurp the role that the novel once played. Focused on subjects as diverse as the nature of relationships, the perils of war, and the meaning of life, graphic novels now comprise the fastest-growing sections of many bookstores�an accessible, vernacular art form with mass appeal. This comprehensive exhibition explores the history and diverse artistry of the graphic novel, featuring personal commentary and artworks by celebrated historic and contemporary practitioners. Original book pages and studies, sketchbooks, and video interviews provide insights into an evolving and exciting art form. Artworks by Jessica Abel, Sue Coe, R. Crumb, Howard Cruse, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Brian Fies, Gerhard, Milt Gross, Marc Hempel, Niko Henrichon, Mark Kalesniko, Peter Kuper, Harvey Kurtzman, Matt Madden, Frans Masereel, Frank Miller, Terry Moore, Dave Sim, Art Spiegelman, Lynd Ward, Lauren Weinstein, Mark Wheatley, Barron Storey and others will be on view.

January 19 - April 20
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Special Installation: Claude Lorrain—New Acquisitions
See for the first time a magnificent group of sixteen drawings by the great French landscape artist Claude Lorrain, acquired by the Clark in 2007. Dating from 1630 through the 1680s, these works represent the range of Claude's draftsmanship—chronologically, thematically, and technically. Several of the drawings are nature studies, including identifiable sites such as Rome and Tivoli. Others are generalized landscape views and studio drawings with imaginary or historical subjects.

February 17 - May 4
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Remington Looking West
From the 1890s until his death in 1909, Frederic Remington created paintings, sculptures, illustrations, and writings that offered a compelling and vivid portrayal of the Wild West. His images of dramatic horsemanship, frontier warfare, and bushwhacking adventure, set against a vast and foreboding landscape, captured the popular imagination. Filling his scenes with detail, Remington strove to maintain the appearance of historical accuracy and firsthand experience.

February 27 - May 21
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Library Installation: A Photographic Look at the New American West
The landscape of the American West has long been a subject for photographers. The advent of photography in the mid-nineteenth century and the development of easier methods of photographic reproduction corresponded with the western expansion of the nation. Photographic documentation augmented the reports issued as part of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories and photography was capturing the wondrous archaeological discoveries being made, as well as capturing the vestiges of American Indian culture. Civic boosters, hotel resorts, and railway lines were using photography in promotional material to woo visitors to the western states. Mon-Fri, 10AM - 5PM

March 13 - May 4
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Exhibition: Simon and Herta Moselsio
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of Bennington College with paintings and sculpture by early professors Simon and Herta Moselsio.

March 22 - May 3
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Local Artist Program: Jack Metzger
Jack Metzger creates photographs and sculptures from interesting old found objects. He allows the beauty of these seemingly mundane objects to speak through the ages. Whether it be one of his photographs of an old bottle cap, a group of broken glass bottles arranged on the tines of an ancient pitch fork, or even a carved outhouse seat mounted on the wall as sculpture, Jack has the ability to bring out the “art” in just about anything.

April 1 - 30
Red Lion Inn
Stockbridge, MA
Entertainment at the Lion's Den
Folk, Irish, Rock, Jazz and more at the Lion's Den every evening. No cover charge. 9PM (9:30 Weekends)

April 4 - June 1
Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Tool Aesthetics: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Presented in conjunction with "Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit" this show will look at the tool collection of the Bennington Museum in an art historical manner.

Bennington Museum
Bennington, VT
Reimagining The Distaff Toolkit
"Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit" is an exhibition of contemporary art, each of which has, at its visible core, a tool that was important for women's domestic labor in the past (the 18th century through World War II). The old tool becomes the fulcrum for a work of art. Each work and the exhibit as a whole have the power to speak to viewers independently, Artists are placing objects such as a dressmaker’s figure, diapers, graters, grinders, needles, pins, pots, pans, baskets, garden-seed-packets, rakes, hoes, dress patterns, dish-rags, rolling pins, brooms, buckets, darning eggs, knives, rug-beaters, and other tools at the center of their work. One piece will have an early 19th century distaff at its visible core. Part of the point of this exhibition project is to explore the idea of "seeing as context." As I imagine the process here, I look at a tool that facilitated very hard and repetitive labor and that evokes women's degradation as domestic drudges. I look again, through my early 21st century eyes, at a moment when "old tools" have become commodified and expensive, and I see costly beauty. Reimagining the distaff toolkit for the purposes of this exhibition might include (overlapping) gestures in any of the following directions – or other directions – history / memory / gender / labor / material culture / household objects / family relations / power and powerlessness / drudgery / craft and beauty. Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit puts utility in conversation with art, the past in conversation with the present.

April 12 - 27
Hancock Shaker Village
Hancock, MA
Baby Animals on the Shaker Farm
A family favorite! Welcome spring and visit the newest barnyard babies in the Round Stone Barn and surrounding Barn Complex. Its a two week pajama party for new lambs, piglets, calves and chicks! Open 10am to 4pm daily. Great for family outings and class field trips.

April 12 - July 6
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Special Installation: Framing Colonial Albany
Working in conjunction with conservators from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, this year's Lenett Fellow, Katherine Alcauskas, researched an eighteenth-century portrait of a member of one of Albany's founding families—the Van Rensselaers. Exploring the artist, itinerant painter Thomas McIlworth, the painting, and its elaborate frame, this presentation will highlight the findings of this yearlong project.

April 26 - June 1
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
What’s the Story?
Museums are more than repositories of objects—museums tell stories. From works of art depicting historical or mythological tales to personal items once connected to a real life to abstract images evoking one’s own imagination, the objects here all have tales to tell. From the carved tusk of a legendary elephant with Pittsfield connections to Victorian memorial embroidery to paintings by Norman Rockwell, the works of art, historical artifacts, and natural science specimens in this exhibition explore storytelling as an important way that people make sense of their world.

April 26 - August 17
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Special Installation: Pictorial Vision: American and European Photography
Drawn from the collections of the Clark and the Troob Family Foundation, this installation features photographs dating from the 1880s to the 1920s. Among the artists represented are Peter Henry Emerson, Eduard Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, George Seeley, and Pierre Dubreuil.