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At the Clark Museum: Giselle's New World

On a free admission day at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute a couple of weeks ago, 11-year-old Giselle Ciulla seems like just one of the many other well-behaved kids hanging out with their parents on a day's cultural excursion. Upbeat and bubbly, she says she enjoys

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Art Reaches for the Stars at Williams

Like many of us, Elizabeth Rooklidge's fate, it seems, was written in the stars. A second year art history graduate student at Williams College, Rooklidge, who made her way east from Southern California, found her muse in the vaults of Williams College Museum of Art's (WCMA&

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Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home

The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains,  is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most

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SculptureNow: Now!

"Stalking Cheetah" by Wendy Klemperer When people think of public art in small towns, they may conjure up images of statuesque bronzes to martyred saints such as the beautiful 1896 bronze of Saint Winifred by George E, Bissel, looking at the moment rather lonely (if not downright mopey)

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The Clark Unearths Rare Artifacts and Sterling Clark's Adventures in China

Sandstone sarcophagus, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), tomb of Song Shaozu,  dated 477 CE, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan. In 2000 in Shanxi Province, a nine-ton stone sarcophagus dating back to China's Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 CE) was unearthed. Ironically, the “mini house,” which was once displayed in bits

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Art Review: Canadian Club

David Harper's sculpture of a wild boar, "Finding Yourse," is constructed of fine porcelain and covered in soft cowhide at MASS MoCA's vast exhibition,Oh, Canada. Anyone who needs visible proof of the socio-psychological benefits of a free universal health-care system should make the

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Dia-fied: Blinky & Co. at Beacon and Bard

by Scott Baldinger “Art is not innocent (Oscar) Wilde says ... Violence can be done in its name. Indeed, the twentieth century brought forth many Dorian Grays: fiendishly pure spirits so wrapped up in aesthetics that they become heedless of humanity.” This quote, from a recent New Yorker article by Alex

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Cutting Edge Exhibit Down by the Riverside

by Betsy Miller Picture Shirley Bassey singing her hit song This is My Life in one of her dramatic costumes.   Now imagine her singing the same song at different points in her career, all captured on video that has been fragmented by an artist, who further fractures the images with

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Impressions of a Revolutionary: Pissarro's People

by Robyn Perry A kind-looking man with a long flowing beard and piercing eyes, Camille Pissarro, father of French Impressionism, was not French at all.  He was born into a Sephardic Jewish family on the then-Danish colony of St. Thomas in the Caribbean, and remained a Danish citizen all his

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Carolyn Blackwood, the Accidental Artist

It's not her fault that she trips into careers.  She hadn't intended to become a lead singer for jazz bands, she just fell into it while in graduate school.  Same with the years she spent as a tv producer in France.  And now photography:  It'

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The Alchemy of Art and Commerce

Last Blues of Dusk by Susanna Heller at the John Davis Gallery There is a hardly-secret, yet too-seldom-applied formula for enlivening Main Streets at night. Rather than play favorites, let us offer one example of a town from outside our region that applies it brilliantly: East Hampton, on eastern Long

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Bart Gulley: The Making of a Painter

"Artists can't help but be influenced by where they work," says the abstract painter Bart Gulley.  "Particularly if they feel wedded to the place."  Gulley is wedded to both Chatham, NY, where he has lived full-time with his wife, the writer Sally Helgesen, since

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