Clark Art Presents Exhibition of Isamu Noguchi

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—The Clark Art Institute presents a survey of the acclaimed Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988). 
 
According to a press release:
 
Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time surveys Noguchi's perennial engagements with the concept of time, from his early design for a commercial kitchen timer to his late carvings of millennia-old stone. 
 
The exhibition is on view July 19 through October 13, 2025 in the Clark Center's Michael Conforti Pavilion.
 
The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, New York. The Noguchi Museum's Curator and Director of Research Matthew Kirsch and Curator Kate Wiener curated the exhibition and conceptualized the presentation at the Clark in partnership with Esther Bell, the Institute's Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator.
 
The exhibition features thirty-seven objects representing a wide array of Noguchi's sculptures in a variety of materials, all united through the concept of time's passage.
 

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Mohican People Honored with Display in South Williamstown

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff

The idea for the installation was inspired by a sculpture installation at Field Farm.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A granite installation in Bloedel Park next to the town's new traffic rotary honors the area's first residents and caps an effort that began five years ago.
 
The large granite wall across from the Store at Five Corners is adorned with emblems inspired by the symbols that decorate baskets of the Mohican people. It provides a testament to the presence of the ancestors of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, who, thousands of years ago, lived in the land now known as Berkshire County.
 
The black and red images of a leaf and bear claw are accompanied by an interpretive panel telling part of the story of the native people who fought with the Americans in their Revolutionary War and later were forcibly removed from the area in the late 18th century. 
 
Today, the Mohican people persist with nearly 1,600 enrolled members on or near a reservation in Wisconsin.
 
But the Stockbridge-Munsee Community has never lost its connection to its ancestral home, and, in the last decade, more of the area's contemporary residents have worked to recognize that link.
 
Bette Craig thought the then-planned roundabout would offer an opportunity to highlight that historic link.
 
"It all started in 2021 when MassDOT was having a Zoom meeting to tell the local community about it and get feedback and so forth," Craig said on Thursday. "At the time, I was the president of the South Williamstown Community Association. I was saying things about [the proposed project], and one of the community people listening was Polly Macpherson, who I knew from the League of Women Voters.
 
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