gifted to the museum by the foundation of the late collector and philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian in 2024.<\/a> The exhibition highlights European art from the Renaissance through the 19th century, including paintings, sculpture and decorative arts by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Andrea della Robbia, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jacques Louis David.<\/p>\nBorn in Bulgaria of Armenian descent, Tavitian immigrated to the United States in 1961. Beginning in 2004 and continuing until his death in 2020, he assembled one of the most significant private collections of European art in North America. \u201cAn Exquisite Eye\u201d is the first public presentation of selected works; the full collection will be installed in 2028 with the opening of the new Aso O. Tavitian Wing. The exhibition is curated by Esther Bell, deputy director and chief curator, and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, the Aso O. Tavitian curator of early modern European painting & sculpture.<\/p>\n
‘PATHS IN THE FOREST’<\/p>\n
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Giorgio Griffa, “Rosa,” 1968, acrylic on canvas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Courtesy of the Fondazione Giorgio Griffa and Casey Kaplan, New York<\/p>\n
Also in June, the Lunder Center at Stone Hill will host \u201cGiorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest,\u201d the first solo U.S. exhibition of the Italian contemporary artist. Griffa, who turns 90 this year, is known for his unprimed, unstretched canvases covered with lines, letters and numbers painted in acrylic. The survey examines 13 painting cycles, exploring the material and conceptual limits of his work. The exhibition is curated by Wiesenberger and supported by the Edward and Maureen Fennessy Bousa Fund for Contemporary Projects and the Italian Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n
‘COASTLINES’<\/p>\n
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Thomas Moran, “View of Venice, 1887,” watercolor and gouache on paper. The Clark, gift of Mary Carswell.<\/p>\n
THE CLARK ART<\/p>\n
The Clark\u2019s summer exhibitions also include \u201cCoastLines: American Prints and Drawings,\u201d opening July 4 in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper. The show features 19th- and 20th-century watercolors, etchings, drawings, lithographs and wood engravings that depict the eastern U.S. coastline, highlighting both the artistic line and the region\u2019s cultural and economic history. Curated by Hannah Chew, a graduate student in the Williams College\/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art, the exhibition runs through Sept. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLIAMSTOWN \u2014 The Clark Art Institute will open a diverse slate of exhibitions in 2026, highlighted by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,135301,135298,135306,501,156,135307,135299,135304,135303,135302,135310,111,139,69,135300,135305,135311,135309,135308],"class_list":{"0":"post-226602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-aso-o-tavitian","13":"tag-clark-art-institute","14":"tag-clark-center","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-esther-bell","18":"tag-giorgio-griffa","19":"tag-hannah-chew","20":"tag-jean-antoine-watteau","21":"tag-lara-yeager-crasselt","22":"tag-lunder-center","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-olivier-meslay","27":"tag-robert-wiesenberger","28":"tag-stone-hill","29":"tag-the-clark-art-institute","30":"tag-williams-college"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}