Clark Art Talks Highlighting Works on Paper

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This August, the Clark Art Institute's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a series of new talks celebrating the two-hundredth birthday anniversaries of several artists in the Clark's collection, including Jean-Léon Gérôme, Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jozef Israëls, and William Morris Hunt. 
 
Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department.
 
Offered Wednesdays in August from 1:00–1:30 pm. Topics and presenters include:
  • August 7: "Many Happy Returns!" with Alexis Goodin, associate curator
  • August 14: "Curator's Choice" with Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator
  • August 21: "Edgar Degas Bonus Selection" with Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
  • August 28: "Views of Venice" with William Satloff, graduate intern in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper
Free. Capacity is limited. Seating is first-come, first-served. The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper is located next to the Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism exhibition in the Manton Research Center.

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Williamstown Accepts Williams' $2M Bid for 59 Water St.

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted 4-1 to  accept a revised offer from Williams College to purchase the former town garage site at four times the original upfront offer.
 
The college's original response to the town's request for proposals for 59 Water St. proposed that the school acquire the vacant lot for an upfront purchase price of $500,000 plus 10 years of $50,000 contributions to the Mount Greylock Regional School District.
 
On Monday night, Williams' director of communications presented a revised offer: the original $500,000 purchase price plus an additional $1.5 million contribution to the town, paid in a lump sum at the time of closing.
 
In addition to doubling the effective purchase price ($2 million versus the $1 million over 10 years), the new offer addresses a concern raised by members of the Select Board at its first public consideration of the college's proposal: the fact that $50,000 in 2036 is not the same as $50,000 in 2026.
 
The college's Gina Puc noted that the $500,000 purchase price alone is anywhere from a third more to double the lot's appraised value, depending on which appraisal you look at, a sum she characterized as "reasonable, even generous."
 
"After consideration and listening to the good conversation at the last Select Board meeting, we've decided to revise our offer, so we'll make a one-time payment of $1.5 million to the town at closing," Puc said. "This is in place of the $50,000 payment to the local schools.
 
"We're responding to some of the feedback we heard — one, to really compensate for lost tax revenue on the site for this being converted from what was, potentially, a commercial lot and, in addition, listening to feedback about having this go to the town instead of the schools."
 
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