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January 2008

October 12, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Special Installation: Facing the Lens: Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photographs at the Clark
Facing the Lens, consisting of fifteen works from the collections of the Clark and the Troob Family Foundation, includes photographs by Édouard Baldus, Nadar, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Roger Fenton, and Julia Margaret Cameron. The photographs’ subjects range from wealthy families at home and celebrated writers posing in commercial studios, to medical patients trapped in an age that offered limited treatments. Facing the Lens also includes two self-portraits, as few photographers could resist the urge to face the lens themselves, staring back into the mechanical eye that provided a source of income and an exciting new means of artistic expression.

October 15, 2007 - January 15, 2008
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Library Installation: Lapp Princess Press: A Small Press and Artists' Books from the Late 1970s
Writer and art critic Amy Baker founded Lapp Princess Press in 1977. As with other small presses of the period, Lapp Princess’s goal was to create artists’ books that could be purchased by the widest possible audience. Each of the volumes created under Baker’s directorship were issued in editions of 2,000—a very large number for this type of material. They each sold for $3, making them even more accessible.

While the artist was given total freedom concerning the ultimate product, Baker set the format for the Lapp Princess books. Each closed book was to be a uniform six inches square. While some artists maintained a traditional book format of single, uniformly trimmed leaves, others opted to expand the book beyond the six inches, as in Chuck Close’s 64-inch leparello or the even more elaborately folded 18-by-24 inch sheet by David Shapiro and Lucio Pozzi. Monday through Friday, 10AM to 5PM

October 28, 2007 - January 21, 2008
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Printed Love
Eighteenth-century France had a flourishing market in artists’ prints and illustrated books. Printed Love draws from Clark collections to provide a broad picture of the variety of ways in which the theme of love was addressed in print in the eighteenth century during this period. Among the works on display are several masterpieces of French Rococo book illustration, many still in contemporary bindings, by master designers and engravers such as Jean Michel Moreau Le Jeune and Nicolas Delaunay. From the flirtatious to the libertine, from the light-hearted to the moralizing, these works give a sense of the context in which Fragonard’s allegories of love were viewed and appreciated.

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 1 - 31
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)

January 4
Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge, MA
Model Citizens

Find out what it was like to pose for America�s favorite illustrator from one of Norman Rockwell�s former models. Free with Museum admission. 2:30PM

January 12 - 13
Hilltop Orchards
Richmond, MA
Opening Day Cross-Country Ski and Snowshoe Center

Hilltop Orchards is opening a new cross-country ski and snowshoe center this season with groomed trails throughout the orchard, offering scenic 20-mile views into the southern Berkshires. A two-day open house is scheduled for Sat., Jan. 12 and Sun. Jan. 13 to coincide with the national Winter Trails Day* an annual event where facilities offer FREE passes to encourage people to try cross-country and snowshoe skiing (weather permitting). A ski instructor will be on-hand to help first-timers at no charge. Non-skiers are also welcome to the open house where they can enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a free tasting of Furnace Brook Wines in the Barrel Room lounge. This newly designed area behind the Farm Winery Store will provide skiers and non-skiers alike with a place to relax by the fire with a glass of wine or hot cider. A limited quantity of equipment will be available for rent on-site on a first-come basis. Free. Noon - 4PM

 


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