Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Judith M. Lennet Memorial Lecture
5:30 p.m.
Lectures and Academic Programs
Jennifer Cabral, M.A. '01
* Interested members of the public are welcome to attend Clark Lectures, which present recent research to members of the academic community. In addition, the Clark regularly offers public lectures on a variety of art-related subjects for general audiences.

May 2 to 13, 2001
StageWorks Theater
Ten By Ten - The Body Plays
North Pointe Cultural Arts Center located in Historic Kinderhook, New York.
Ten hand-selected playwrights show off their "bodies" this season at StageWorks. For the 5th year in a row, our search for talent has resulted in an extraordinary fist full of short plays - each one somehow tied to the body. Join the fun of spotting the body on our stage – dead or alive, real or imagined.

Whether it is a body of literature, a body of water or no-body at all, Ten by Ten –The Body Plays is sure to be revealing!

May 4 and 5, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies
A Clark Conference
9:00 a.m.
Lectures and Academic Programs
As disciplines that are also active sites of intellectual pursuit, art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in stressful new philosophical and institutional circumstances for which few precedents exist. This third Clark Conference will examine some of the methodological issues generated by this tension. In seeking to anticipate what kinds of interpretations will "survive" contemporary disciplinary debates, the conference will address the relation of aesthetics to the study of art and visual culture, both now and in the past. The goal of Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies is to explore both the connections and lack of connections among these three areas of visual analysis.
More information about this Clark Conference can be obtained by calling the Events Office at 413-458-2303, extension 324, or by writing to research@clarkart.edu.

Saturday, May 5, 2001
Close Encounters With Music
New England and Old England
6:00PM, Ozawa Hall, Lenox
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Stephen Prutsman, piano
Yehuda Hanani, cello
The divine Dawn Upshaw sings a world premire by composer Osvaldo Golijov, commissioned for this occasion; works by Earl Kim; and John Harbison's "evocative, ecstatic" settings of a visionary poem by a 16th-centruy Indian woman. Together with a new set of nocturnes by Jorge Martin, the American premiere of E. J. Moeran's Cello Sonata, and a young work by the extraordinary enfant terrible of the Sceptered Isle - Thomas Ades - it adds up to what promises to be an historic concert.

Saturday, May 5, 2001
The Egg
Treasure Island
$10 adults/$8 seniors & children
1:00 pm & 4:00 pm
Corporate Sponsor: GE Power Systems
Media Sponsors: B95.5 and The Times Union
Meet Young Jim Hawkins, his ruffian friends and Long John Silver in this original musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic novel. Share in the fun as a cast of Capital Region kids joins Missoula Children's Theatre in their newest production.

May 7 to 13, 2001
NYS Theatre Institute
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Adapted by Kevin Kling
Based on the books by Kevin Henkes
Lilly loves everything about school – the pencils, the chalk, the cafeteria, and most of all, her teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly disrupts the class showing off her new purple plastic purse, Mr. Slinger takes it away for the day. The delightful adventures of a spunky little mouse, with some valuable lessons about family, sharing, and forgiveness. Kevin Henkes’s wonderful characters come to life in this enchanting production, especially for the littlest ones.
Recommended for age 4 and older

Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
"Two Stories of the Eye: Nietzsche, Foucault, and Art"
5:30 p.m.
Lectures and Academic Programs
Clark Lecture*
Gary Shapiro, Clark Fellow
* Interested members of the public are welcome to attend Clark Lectures, which present recent research to members of the academic community. In addition, the Clark regularly offers public lectures on a variety of art-related subjects for general audiences.

Thursday, May 10, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
"Desert Island" Lecture Series
12:30 p.m.
Lawrence's The Hon. Caroline Upton
Alexis Goodin, assistant curator

May 11 to 13, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Plant Sale 2001
Stockbridge, MA
10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday.
We will offer annuals grown by Garden staff, grasses, ground covers, vines, and an incredible selection of perennials for sun and for shade, some shrubs and other woody plants provided by the best area nurseries. Many new and rare plants will be featured - watch this space for details.

Last year we started to great acclaim a Specialty Vendor area where you will find unusual plants and the experts to tell you about them. Here you will find organically grown, heirloom and hybrid vegetables from Indian Line Farm of Great Barrington. Buy your heirloom plants here so you can enter their produce at the Garden's summer Flower Show.

Saturday, May 12, 2001
The Egg
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
$15 adults/$9 seniors/$8 children
8:00 pm
Dance Series Sponsor: Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Corporate Sponsor: Crowne Plaza Albany
Media Sponsor: Metroland
Celebrating its tenth anniversary season, our resident dance company takes your breath away with its vibrant energy, airborne athleticism and provocative modern dance. Risk taking and beautifully out of bounds, Sinopoli's choreography makes for a "near perfect evening of dance." (The Gazette)

Sunday, May 13, 2001
The Egg
David Bromberg Big Band with special guest Danny O'Keefe
$26/$24 members
7:30 pm
Presented in association with the Eastern Performing Arts Coalition No regular Egg discounts apply.
The Capital Region is again fortunate to be included in a short, exclusive tour that reunites the legendary David Bromberg Big Band performing their dizzying mix of roots music, combining stellar musicianship with the unexpected ironic twists that are a Bromberg trademark.

Monday, May 14, 2001
Berkshire Lyric Theatre
Blafield Children's Chorus
Lenox Town Hall
Lenox, MA
concert, featuring winners of the BLT Young Musicians Scholarship

Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
"Costly and Curious, Full of Pleasure and Home Contentment: Desire and Distinction in the Dutch Interior"
5:30 p.m.
Lectures and Academic Programs
Clark Lecture*
Mariët Westermann, Clark Fellow
* Interested members of the public are welcome to attend Clark Lectures, which present recent research to members of the academic community. In addition, the Clark regularly offers public lectures on a variety of art-related subjects for general audiences.

May 18, 19, 25, 26, 2001
Town Players
MARVIN'S ROOM by Scott McPherson
Berkshire Community College's Koussevitzky Arts Center
Robert Boland Theater at 8:00 PM
A tender and terribly funny play about love and death and and account of one woman's commitment to loving others first, and her belief that giving such love has made her life unbelievably rich, even as she faces her own death. 'Bessie' lives in Florida and takes care for her aunt Ruth and her father Marvin. Aunt Ruth has several collapsed vertebrae and has to wear a electrode pack on her wrist that she uses to control her constant pain and which also wildly opens and closes the garage door at random intervals. Unable to speak and confined to his bed for years, Marvin's only entertainment come bouncing beams of sunlight, reflected from a small mirror. Bessie learns amidst all this that she to has been become sick also. Her sister Lee comes from her Ohio home to Florida with her two sons; Hank , who has just been released from a 'institution', and the quiet, shy Charlie.

Saturday, May 19, 2001
The Egg
Dr. John
$24/$22 members
8:00 pm
Presented in association with the Eastern Performing Arts Coalition
No regular Egg discounts apply.
In the late 1960s, famed session pianist Mac Rebennack exposed a whole genreration to the music of New Orleans in his persona as "Dr. John, The Night Tripper." Scoring pop smashes such as "Right Place, Wrong Time" in the 1970s, Dr. John has retained his stature as one of America's foremost purveyors of the blues, jazz and R&B gumbo that drives New Orleans sound.

Sunday, May 20, 2001
The Egg
Andrea Marcovicci in Our Songs, 1965 to 1985
$25 adults/$22 seniors & children
7:00 pm
Corporate Sponsor: AMTRAK
Media Sponsors: The Gazette and WTRY
"The most throbbingly irresistible voice in cabaret" (New York magazine) shines in a show perfect for Baby-boomers. With selections from the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Paul Simon and more, she escorts her audience on a dazzlingly nostalgic trip down memory lane.

ONGOING

September 2, 2000 through January 27, 2002
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Norman Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post Covers
Back by popular demand, this archival exhibition shows all 322 covers Norman Rockwell illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post. From his first cover at the age of 22, to his last in 1963, Rockwell's work for The Saturday Evening Post charmed and delighted audiences. Rockwell's covers for the Post were so popular that, when a Rockwell illustration appeared on the cover, hundreds of thousands of magazines were added to the print run to handle the increased demand.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 413-298-4100, ext. 220

November 11, 2000 through May 28, 2001
Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: THE ART OF THE POSTAGE STAMP
This exhibition explores the evolution of the postage stamp, from early hand-engraved depictions of our historical past to the dynamic graphic statements that document all aspects of American life - past and present. It celebrates the thumb-sized masterpieces that are perhaps the most accessible art form through the exhibition of original artworks and outline the process by which stamps come into being through letters, commentary, photography and process imagery.
FOR INFORMATION: Please call 413-298-4100, ext. 220

February 11, 2001 through May 6, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Victorian Photography from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
The wide range of subjects depicted by Victorian photographers is well represented in this selection of works dating from the 1840s through the 1860s: from Egypt to the English countryside, from still lifes to portraits. The exhibition focuses in particular on the "golden age" of the 1860s, when British photography developed from a hobbyist's pastime to a commercial art form. Works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, John Murray, Francis Frith, and Camille Silvy are featured. The photographs are drawn from the Clark's growing collection of early photography, begun in May 1998 as the first new area of collecting since the Institute opened to the public in 1955.

February 11, 2001 through May 6, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Rossetti in the 1860s: The Blue Bower
In the 1860s, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England, turned from biblical and legendary subjects to images that would define his reputation: half-length allegorical portraits of beautiful women. The Blue Bower is at the center of this exhibition, which focuses on a great suite of Rossetti's famous "stunners," depictions of his favored models that epitomize paradoxical Victorian views of womanhood. Also included in this exhibition are works by Rossetti's contemporaries, who explored ideas in which Rossetti was interested, including the notion of the femme fatale and the connection between art and music.

This exhibition is organized by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the University of Birmingham, England.

February 11, 2001 through May 6, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Public Program on Rossetti in the 1860s: The Blue Bower
In conjunction with the exhibition Rossetti in the 1860s: "The Blue Bower," the Clark will present a related public program on every Sunday at 3:00 p.m. during the run of the exhibition.

Wednesdays, February 28, March 28, April 25, and May 30, 2001
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Looking Twice, Seeing Double: Comparing Paintings at the Clark
To encourage visitors to spend a little longer looking at and thinking about paintings from the Clark collection, curator of education Michael Cassin will offer a new four-part mini-course on the last Wednesday of each month, beginning February 28. Each slide talk will compare a pair of paintings that are similar in theme but different in appearance. To register, call the Education Department at 413-458-2303, extension 363, or e-mail education@clarkart.edu. Cost for the entire course is $18 for members, $22 for non-members. Individual talks are $5 for members, $6 for non-members.

March 3 to June 3, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Made in America
In an effort to visually support the Education Department's exploration and comparison of art from different periods and cultures, Made in America provides 15-20 American paintings from WCMA's permanent collection that investigate how these pieces both represent and misrepresent their cultures. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

March 17 to December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Stones of Assyria: Ancient Spirits from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Two of the first objects to enter the Williams College Museum of Art's collection are re-examined in an installation that investigates their original function and location in a 7th c. BC palace in Iraq and the fascinating 19th century story of how they ended up at a small New England college. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections; Barbara Robertson, Director of Education; and Elyse Gonzales, MA '00.

April 9 - May 18, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION
public reception: April 13, 2001 at 8 pm

May 19 through September 23, 2001
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Sculpture in the Garden 2001
Stockbridge, MA
An outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture presented in collaboration with Sculpture Now. The show presents the works of outstanding artists from the Berkshires and beyond displayed in a beautiful outdoor seting.

May 21 - June 2, 2001
Berkshire Artisans
Pittsfield, MA
ART IN OUR SCHOOLS
Artwork from students in Pittsfield grades 6 thr 12
public reception: May 24, 2001 at 6 pm

Through July 22, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
The Art of Leisure: Maurice and Charles Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art
The two Prendergast brothers, Maurice (1858-1924) and Charles (1863-1948), dedicated their art to leisure themes that were dear to newly affluent Americans at the turn of the 20th c. In this exhibition, about 50 of their paintings of beaches, parks, quaint New England towns, European tourist attractions, and fashionable idylls will be explored in terms of social attitudes and aspirations of the period. Drawn from the WCMA collection and organized by Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Curator.

Through August 12, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Labeltalk 2001
The fifth in a popular exhibition series that explores the multiple ways in which a work of art can be interpreted. Eight works of art in this exhibition are accompanied by three labels, written by different Williams College professors from the point of view of their discipline. The result is a fascinating interdisciplinary look at the numerous possible interpretations of any work of art. Organized by Stefanie Spray Jandl, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Associate.

Through September 3, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Photography EXPOSED
An installation of photographs from the museum's collection investigating the question, "what makes a portrait?" Included in the exhibition are anonymous daguerreotypes along with work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, Barbara Morgan, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, and James Van Der Zee. Organized by Rachael Arauz, Visiting Professor of Art and Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- A Wall Drawing by Sol Lewitt
To launch its 75th anniversary year, the Williams College Museum of Art invited renowned, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt to create a wall drawing for the museum's atrium. Consistent with the artist's belief that the concept and not the execution is the most important aspect of a work of art, a representative from his studio along with three Williams College students created the 33-foot high painting according to a set of LeWitt's site-specific plans. For two weeks in January 2001 visitors watched Uneven Bands from the Upper Right Corner take form from beginning stages to finished work. The completed wall drawing in red, blue, yellow, purple, green, and orange is on view through December 2001.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- American Pop
In their efforts to explore the aesthetics of mass culture, American Pop artists produced an enormous body of art in a variety of media. This exhibition includes 16 images -- paintings and works on paper -- by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Johns, Rauschenberg, Rivers, and Ruscha in which the viewer confronts the clash of high art, painterly values, and the mundane commercial world. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Masterpieces Ancient to Modern
Celebrating WCMA's 75 years of dedication to teaching and learning about art, this exhibition provides an interesting and informative survey of the breadth and strengths of the College Museum's holdings. It reveals the complicated story of the evolution of this unique museum, shaped by individual directors and curators, changing philosophies of taste and the results of just plain chance. The painting, sculpture and work on paper selected from the over 12,000 objects in the collection will offer fresh insight and perspective to the multiplicity of forms, historic periods, individual expressions and diverse world cultures. Organized by Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections.

Through December, 2001
Williams College Museum of Art
Celebrating 75 Years -- Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection
Approaching the museum's permanent collection from the artist's perspective two Williams College studio faculty members, select works that exemplify the process and temporality specific to the printmaking medium. Artists including Francisco Goya, Alberto Giacometti, Judy Pfaff, Roger Brown, and Joyce Neimanas explore a variety of techniques from traditional lithography and etching to serigraph, monoprint, silkscreen, inkjet, and photogravure. Organized by Barbara Takenaga, Professor of Art, Frank Jackson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, and Lisa Dorin, Curatorial Assistant.

Throughout 2001
Buggy Whip Factory
Buggy Whip Factory opens historic exhibit
Southfield, MA
The museum, free and open to the public, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Thursday through Monday. It will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday until May 1.

The Buggy Whip Factory, a 20,000- square-foot complex in the Southfield section of the town now occupied by about 60 antiques dealers and craftsmen, has opened a permanent historic exhibition to honor and document the "whip shop's" 200 years of achievement.

The Turner & Cook Whip Manufactory got its start in 1791 as a small tanning operation. It grew into a large enterprise at its present site, specializing first in rawhide whip cores. Then, as the demand for buggy whips faded, belt pins and rawhide mallets became the focus until the shop ceased operation.
For more info call (413) 229-3576