Clark Art Institute
Considering that none of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière’s history is familiar, absorbing this scholarly exhibition, which is accompanied by extensive labels and wall texts, is demanding.
Read MorePlan to linger over every moment of this revelatory, diverse, and understated special exhibition.
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Read MoreEdvard Munch was very far from a one-hit wonder. His career was a long narrative of restless creativity.
Read MoreOne sees how the keen observation and “truth to nature” that critic John Ruskin espoused was put into action by John Constable and J.M. W. Turner.
Read MoreWho knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
Read MoreThis is a relatively small but stunning selection of Picasso’s finest prints, a collection that reflects the artist’s range of inspiration.
Read MoreWith invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.
Read MoreAt times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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