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Toulouse-Lautrec and His Paris at the Clark

Robert Sterling Clark, who always went by his middle name, was the grandson of Edward Clark, business partner of I.M. Singer, the inventor of the lockstitch sewing machine.  The elder Clark, a lawyer, handled the business side of the Singer Manufacturing Company, but he was inventive too—after settling

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Carrie Haddad Opens a Brave New Photography Gallery

Since she opened her first gallery in Hudson in 1991, Carrie Haddad has been exhibiting photography as well as paintings, most recently in her eponymous gallery at 622 Warren Street.  "I have a history of showing photography and an audience for it," she says. "But it'

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The Glory & The Grandeur: Antiquities Gallery Opens in Hudson

When the present is uncertain, it can be comforting to look to the past, particularly to a great and distant era.  Which is why no period in human history will ever supplant "the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome" as a reliable wellspring of revivals.

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jacques Kaplan in Kent

Jacques Kaplan, the pioneering art dealer in Kent, CT, was a larger than life figure.  A one-time Fifth Avenue furrier, who collaborated on coats with artists such as Frank Stella in the go-go sixties, he ran his Paris-New York-Kent Gallery in a caboose by Kent's old railroad station

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A Major Sol LeWitt Retrospective at Mass MoCA

Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential artists of the last half century, so opposed the notion of artist-as-celebrity, it's hard to imagine, had he lived, how he would have grappled with the opening this weekend at MASS MoCA.   Never mind that the exhibition is a landmark retrospective

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"Over the Top: American Posters from World War I" Opens at the Norman Rockwell Museum

As anyone who has spent time at the Norman Rockwell Museum knows, the quintessential American illustrator was a politically-minded man with a highly developed social conscience.  Rockwell's spirit lives on not only in the museum's extraordinary permanent collection of his paintings, but also in the temporary

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"Forces of Nature" at Kent's Ober Gallery

"Some of my best clients are my former students," says Rob Ober, the former tennis pro at the Sharon Country Club who became an art dealer two years ago when he opened the Ober Gallery in Kent. "One day during a lesson, the man I was teaching

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The White Gallery Reopens in Lakeville

Susan and Tino Galluzzo believe in second careers, second marriages and second acts. She's a former lawyer and he's a former investment banker, who became art dealers six years ago when they opened The White Gallery in Lakeville. Two years later, they became husband and wife

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A Vassar Visionary: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Brings Her Collection to her Alma Mater

Since 2002, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Vassar class of '89) has been exhibiting contemporary art at Salon 94, which is located downstairs from her home on New York's Upper East Side. Now she is bringing pieces from her cutting-edge private collection to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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"Look @ Us!" A Breath of Fresh Air at the Berkshire Museum

Until now, you had to be a mad dog or masochist to visit the Berkshire Museum in July or August. "It was ghastly here," admits executive director Stuart Chase. But now that the 105- year-old museum on South Street in Pittsfield has finally gotten central air conditioning, it

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Artists' Studio Tour to Benefit Sharon Historical Society

Eight accomplished artists who live in the area, including Ellen Griesedieck, Eric Forstmann, Richard Rothschild, Peter Steiner, Don Gummer, James Mayer, Ira Barkoff and Duncan Hannah, will open their studios this weekend to benefit the Sharon Historical Society. The artists will be on hand throughout the weekend to discuss their

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Film and talk: The Rape of Europa

For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. And once they were defeated heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a miraculous campaign that would rescue and return millions of art works that had been

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