Clark Art Presents an Exploration of the ASO O. Tavitian Collection

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, June 3 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts "Exploring the Aso O. Tavitian Collection," a presentation by Hardymon Director Olivier Meslay, Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator Esther Bell, and Sylvia and Leonard Marx Director of Collections and Exhibitions Kathleen Morris. 
 
This free event explores the gift to the Clark of 331 works of art from the foundation of the late philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian. The gift includes art from Mr. Tavitian's collection as well as significant support for the long-term care of these holdings, including the construction of a new Aso O. Tavitian Wing at the Clark, which is being designed by Selldorf Architects.
 
This presentation takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. 
 
A 5 pm reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

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Theater Review: 'Driving Miss Daisy' Is a 'Wondrous' Production

By Alan PetrucelliSpecial to iBerkshires
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" rolled into the St. Germain Stage in late May, marking the opening of Barrington Stage Company's 2026 season.
 
And what a wondrous, welcoming production it is. Uhry won a Pulitzer Prize for his work; he won an Oscar for the 1989 film adaptation of the play, which also won the Best Picture Oscar. Yes, that's how good it is.
 
Daisy Werthan is a 72-year-old white Jewish widow in Atlanta whose car accident destroyed her Packard — and her chance to ever drive herself again.
 
"Mama, we are just going to have to hire someone to drive you," her adult son Boolie tells her. 
 
She is adamant: "What I do not want — and absolutely will not have — is some chauffeur sitting in my kitchen, gobbling my food and running up my phone bill."
 
Enter Hoke Colburn, an unemployed African-American illiterate who grew up in rural Georgia during the Jim Crow-era South. Boolie hires him at $20 a week, and in a span of 85 minutes and a decade or so, this odd couple develop a tight bond that overcomes their cultural, gender and class differences. 
 
Though she's living in a racially explosive time in the South, the irascible Miss Daisy doesn't consider herself racist, nor does she fully accept the realities of the racist culture that has even resulted in a bombing at her own synagogue (a true event in Atlanta, in 1958).
 
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