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Clark Art exhibition on French theatre and art tops Berkshires fall schedule

Visions of the Stage: Prints and Drawings, 1600-1800, an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, explores the relationships between theater, visual art, and performance in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.

Running through through November 16, Visions of the Stage: Theater, Art, and Performance in France, 1600-1800, is an exhibition of 20 works that draws from the collections of the Clark and Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College. The exhibition includes drawings, prints, and books relating to theater and performance, including drawings by Jean-Antoine Watteau, illustrations by Francois Boucher and many others, as well as costume designs, portraits of actors, and designs for theaters.

A two-day symposium “Visions of the Stage: Theater, Art, and Performance in France, 1600-1800″ will be held on September 12 and 13. Renowned harpsichordist and musicologist Mark Kroll will perform works by French composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on September 13 at 8 pm at Williams College.

The symposium, convened in association with the Calendrier Électronique des Spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime et sous la Revolution (CESAR), brings together historians of art, literature, theater, and culture to explore the complex relationships between the visual and theatrical arts in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France. Cost to attend is $25 for adults, $15 for students, and free for Williams students and faculty. Register online at www.clarkart.edu or by calling 413-458-0524.

Symposium participants include: Mark Bannister, Oxford Brookes University; Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawaii; Jeanne Bovet, Université de Montréal; Véronique Lochert, Université de Haute-Alsace; Jan Clarke, Durham University; Sabine Chaouche, Oxford Brookes University; Anne L. Schroder, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; Christian Biet, Institut Universitaire de France, Université de Paris X (Nanterre); Nathalie Rizzoni, CELLF 17e-18e, Université de Paris (Sorbonne); Françoise Rubellin, Université de Nantes; Daniel Smith, Northwestern University; Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University; Sarah Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York; and Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley. Funding for the symposium has been provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.

In association with the symposium, renowned harpsichordist and musicologist Mark Kroll will play a free program of music by Couperin and other French composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on September 13 at 8 pm at Williams College. He will focus on music that paints musical “portraits” of people, places, and things, which reflects seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French society and culture. Kroll is a world-renowned harpsichordist, fortepianist, and scholar, described by the Washington Post as “the ideal performing artist.” He has recorded extensively and toured widely, and has written books on Hummel and Beethoven, and has published extensively in early music journals. Held at in the Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall at Williams College.

The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The galleries are open daily in July and August from 10 am to 5 pm (closed Mondays September through June). Admission June 1 through October 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and younger, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.

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