Members of the Comite Internationale d'Historie de l'Art (CIHA) from China, Australia, India, France, South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Turkey, Canada, Japan, and the United States will meet at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Aug. 11, to discuss current topics in art history. The public is invited to hear their thoughts during a free Clark Conversation, "Art History from the International to the Global: Imagining a New History for CIHA," at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
CIHA was founded in 1930 and organizes a congress every three years to maintain continuing relationships among art historians throughout the world and to oversee the preservation of works of art. Realizing that we no longer live in a Euro-centric world, members of CIHA will discuss how their organization and the discipline of art history can and must change. They aim to encourage a new global network and to expand the traditional boundaries of the subject.
The Clark is one of the country's foremost art museums, as well as a center for research and higher education in art history and criticism. The institute is one of only a few art museums in the nation that is also a major research and academic center, with an international fellowship program and regular conferences, symposia and colloquia, and an art research library. The Clark, together with Williams College, jointly sponsors one of the nation's leading master's program in art history, which has been part of the professional development of a significant number of directors of art museums, curators and scholars.
The Clark is at 225 South St. in Williamstown. The galleries are open daily in July and August, 10 to 5 (closed Mondays, September through June). Admission June 1 through Oct. 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and under, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information: 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu
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Former Harry's Supermarket Under Construction for Restaurant
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A fire gutted the longtime Wahconah Street supermarket in 2023, and the following year, Zhu purchased the property for $460,000 two years ago to build a restaurant with hibachi in the existing footprint of the more than 100-year-old building.
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