Clarks Offers Activities Through February

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Feb. 1: On selected Friday mornings, the Clark galleries welcome new parents and their infants with a talk on a highlight from the permanent collection. Strollers are permitted. Free, held at 10:15 a.m.

Feb. 9: Start with Art Preschool Series: "Animals in Art." Begins with an exploration in the galleries using a guide designed for this age group and a short "Painting Talks." Art-making activities offered afterward. Best suited for 3- to 6-year-olds. Free, held at 10 a.m.

Feb. 10: Victor Hill will perform the music of Handel and Haydn on harpsichord. Free, held at 3 p.m.

Feb. 14: Join senior curator Richard Rand for a look at 16 drawings by Claude Lorrain. Free, held from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Feb. 16: Clark celebrates the opening of "Remington Looking West." The Wild West and Buffalo Bill provide the inspiration for an evening of live music and dancing, hors d'oeuvres and drinks, and a preview of the exhibition. Held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $50 ($40 members). To reserve tickets, call 413-458-0524 or visit www.clarkart.edu.

Feb. 17: Look westward as assistant curator of American art Cody Hartley opens the exhibition "Remington Looking West" with a visual scouting party, exploring Frederic Remington's art and his lifelong fascination with acts of looking, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Free, held 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Feb. 26: Clark Fellow Erika Naginski, associate professor of architectural history in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, will lecture on "Preliminary Thoughts on Piranesi and Vico" at 5:30 p.m. Free.

Feb. 29:  "Clark After Dark: The British Invasion" - it's the 1960s and the British are coming. Get out your paisley shirts, bell bottoms and granny glasses and get ready to dance with the go-go girls. Twiggy lookalikes welcome. The galleries will be open for a look at timeless British images by Gainsborough, Turner, and Constable from the Manton Collection. Includes music and dancing, out-of-the-ordinary activities, exotic snacks, and late-night encounters with art. Held 8 to midnight; $10 ($8 members), at the door. Must be at least 21 to enter. Cash bar.

The Clark is at 225 South St. For more information, www.clarkart.edu or 413-458-2303.
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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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