10 | Summer Previews 2022
Weekend Edition | Saturday & Sunday, May 28-29, 2022
THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
A major survey of Rodin’s sculptures comes to Williamstown This summer, The Clark considers the influence and legacy of Auguste Rodin in America, from 1893 to the present, with an exhibition of some 50 sculptures and 25 drawings, presenting both the artist’s familiar masterpieces and lesser-known works of the highest quality. Upcoming exhibitions include the caricatures and satirical imagery of José Guadalupe Posada; works by Community Access to the Arts participants, and a pairing of new works by Tauba Aueberbach and Yuji Agematsu. Exhibitions Through Dec. 31: “Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City.” The large-format, abstract paintings of Tomm El-Saieh (b. 1984, Port-au-Prince; lives and works in Miami) teem
with dense and dynamic marks that evoke ornament, language and architecture. By variously layering and erasing his linework and using vibrant color to optically push or pull his pictures,
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El-Saieh creates rhythmic, all-over compositions from which larger forms appear to emerge — testing both the limits of perception and expectations about abstraction. United States: Confronting the Modern.” While there has been much consideration of Auguste Rodin’s (1840–1917) reputation in France and throughout Europe, less attention has been paid to his reception in America. This exhibition tells the story of the collectors, art historians, critics, gallerists and philanthropists — many of whom were women — who endeavored to make Rodin known in the United States.
Mexican Revolution of 1910. His pictorial contributions to broadsides, or ephemeral news sheets, provided a daily diet of information and entertainment to a public for whom images needed to tell the story since literacy was not widely prevalent at that time. Posada’s highly varied images of noticias — lurid crimes, current scandals and other sensational stories — constitute only a part of his extensive output. Posada is best known for his sheets of calaveras (skeletons), which figured in popular rituals around the Day of the Dead but were also adapted into satires of political figures and other individuals.
July 2-Sept. 5: “CATA: I Am
July 16-Oct. 16: “Tauba Aue-
June 18-Sept. 18: “Rodin in the
Part of Art.” Community Access to the Arts and The Clark Art Institute join forces to present an exhibition of artworks by participants in CATA’s programs, which focuses attention on the ability within disability.
EDITH W H A RTON’S HOME
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July 16-Oct. 10: “José Guadalupe Posada: Symbols, Skeletons, and Satire.”A tireless producer of caricatures and satirical imagery for the penny press, José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) built his career in an era of political repression and lived to see the profound social changes brought by the
berbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander.” This exhibition pairs new work by Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu, across parallel galleries united under the rubric of the meander, as both noun and verb, motif and method. For Auerbach, this twisting, self-avoiding line traces global traditions of ornament as much as physical waveforms and space-filling curves in geometry. For Agematsu and his practice of walking, collecting and archiving, meander implies drift — both his own paths through New York City and those of other people and things.
