Clark Art First Sunday Free

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute continues its First Sunday Free series on Sunday, Feb 1. 
 
To celebrate Milena Naef's sculpture, Three Times Spanning, part of the outdoor sculpture exhibition Ground/work 2025, the February First Sunday Free's theme is "Bending Bodies." Enjoy free museum admission from 10 am–5 pm and take part in free special activities from 1–4 pm.
 
Naef's monumental work of marble, Three Times Spanning, on view atop Stone Hill in the outdoor sculpture exhibition Ground/work 2025, includes a precise indentation of her own body. From 1–4 pm, create giant tracings of your body or make a mini sculpture inspired by Naef's work. At 1 pm or 2 pm, join educator and dancer Molly Hess for an all-ages movement workshop exploring shape, space, and sculpture. Then, head into the galleries at 3 pm for a guided tour comparing Naef's sculpture to marble sculptures featuring the human figure in the Clark's permanent collection.
 
A special Print Room Pop-Up featuring prints, drawings, and photographs related to the theme will be on view in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper from 1–3 pm.
 
Each First Sunday Free, visitors are welcome to make a mini sculpture inspired by one of the six sculptures in the exhibition and add it to the Clark's growing Ground/work 2025-inspired mural.
 
Admission and activities are free. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit events.clarkart.edu.
 
Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.

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Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2026 Absence Said Not to Cause 'Panic'

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — News this week that the Williamstown Theatre Festival will go dark again this summer has not yet engendered widespread concern in the town's business community.
 
"None of the members have reached out in panic," Williamstown Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sue Briggs said on Wednesday afternoon. "I'm really pleased.
 
"The rumor on the street has been this is what they need in order to come back and be a viable festival. … With that said, I have not had any real one-on-one conversations with business owners about it yet."
 
"It" was the announcement Tuesday, in the form of interviews reported in the Washington Post and Berkshire Eagle, that the WTF would not be staging any theatrical events in Williamstown in the summer of 2026 — just the second time since the Tony Award-winning festival has been absent from the summer scene since it was founded in 1955.
 
The first time was the summer of 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival returned for a scaled down 2021 season and staged four straight seasons that de-emphasized the kind of fully-staged productions of standards and new works that characterized the festival's first 65 years.
 
In 2021, the WTF's return from the COVID shutdown was marred by allegations of "dangerous working conditions."
 
Last summer, the festival hosted its most ambitious program since before the pandemic, including a Tennessee Williams play featuring Hollywood star Pamela Anderson, the world premiere of a drama written by a Tony-nominated playwright, and two events in North Adams, one of which was performed on the ice sheet at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink.
 
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