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‘Lost in art history until now’: First ever major Guillaume Lethiere exhibition on display at the Clark before heading to the Louvre
08-02-2024 10:41 AM

By DON STEWART

He was prominent in the court of Napoleon Bonaparte and painted the Emperor and Josephine and many of the significant figures of that time. Among his close friends were the General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father of the famed author, and the Marquis de...

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A history of satire, lampoons and lawsuits: The Rockwell celebrates Mad magazine’s 72nd year with first major retrospective
06-28-2024 12:55 PM

By DON STEWART

“Working for Mad means never having to grow up.” John Ficarra, Mad magazine editor-in-chief 1985-2018The Norman Rockwell Museum’s current exhibit provides a nostalgic voyage for Baby Boomers, a gold mine for pop historians and a wellspring of ideas...


What does freedom look like today? 7 Black American artists interpret the meaning of emancipation
03-29-2024 12:25 PM

By DON STEWART

Through July 14 at the Williams College Museum of Art you can view new works by seven of today’s leading Black American artists in “Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation.” The show, “conceived as a commemoration of the 160th anniversary...


Rare views into an earlier age: Clark Art Institute exhibits some 80 original images in paper and photographs
02-02-2024 12:08 PM

By DON STEWART

There are those who see winter not as a season but as a siege. They tire of shoveling white glittering fractals from their driveways and see snow as the unnecessary freezing of water.If you’re among those who don’t consider the frozen monochrome of...


The infinite imaginarium of Leo Lionni: A groundbreaking Rockwell exhibit
12-29-2023 6:05 PM

By DON STEWART

As an inquisitive boy growing up in Amsterdam, he kept a menagerie of snails and toads and other small woodland fauna in his room, populating the glass terrariums he’d filled with mosses and ferns. Influenced by one uncle, an architect, and two others...


Sixty years of controversies around JFK’s death: For researchers, few mysteries remain
11-17-2023 2:33 PM

By DON STEWART

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, Julia Ann Mercer, 23, a Dallas resident, was stalled in traffic on Elm Street near what is called the Triple Overpass. A truck was parked halfway up on the curb and she saw a passenger exit with what appeared...


Sixty years of controversies around JFK’s death: For researchers, few mysteries remain
11-17-2023 12:56 PM

By DON STEWART

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, Julia Ann Mercer, 23, a Dallas resident, was stalled in traffic on Elm Street near what is called the Triple Overpass. A truck was parked halfway up on the curb and she saw a passenger exit with what appeared...


Take a day trip to a modernist paradise: The Frelinghuysen Morris Home & Studio in Lenox provides a splendid view of two groundbreaking artistic lives
09-01-2023 3:05 PM

By DON STEWART

A short drive from downtown Lenox, you travel past ornamental wrought iron gates and enter into the former Gilded Age estate of “Brookhurst.” You’re first greeted by a voluptuous two-and-a-half-ton reclining female figure sculpted by Gaston...


Echoes of ‘The Scream’: the stunning views of Edvard Munch on view at The Clark
08-04-2023 2:08 PM

By DON STEWART

It’s often been said by art critics that the most well known painted image is “The Scream” by Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944).The ghostly figure, with hands held to his face under a blood red sun, has even been satirized with comic characters from Bart...


Tony Sarg, who invented the Macy’s Parade balloons and dominated world of illustration in the early 20th century, in spotlight again at Rockwell Museum
07-07-2023 12:34 PM

By DON STEWART

He is credited as the inventor of the comical, and quite enormous, gas-filled dirigible, since 1927 the symbol of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. Called “the father of modern American puppetry,” his productions toured the country and his staff later...


Triumph, tragedy of Paul Goesch on display at Clark Art Institute
05-19-2023 2:38 PM

By DON STEWART

He was the German architect who never built, yet his designs have been influential for generations. Even when shut off from society for almost half his life, he continued to paint and draw, producing some 2,000 images. Although at one time German art...


Hilary Knight at 96: The Rockwell Museum presents a life well lived
02-12-2023 12:06 PM

By DON STEWART

Baby Boomers growing up in the 1950s were full of adventure. We rode in cars lacking seat belts, sped in bicycles without helmets and were told, in the event of nuclear war, nothing could be safer than nestling under our school desks for protection....


Direct from Paris, the Clark reveals 18th century romance
01-06-2023 6:11 PM

By DON STEWART

With admission now free until April, through March 12 at Williamstown’s Clark Art Institute you can view Parisian drawings and prints from the 1700s, ranging from colorful views of flowered landscapes to the mysterious and the fantastic. “Promenades...

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