Visions Of A Gilded Age: Film Adaptations Of Henry James And Edith Wharton
Out of the same era and milieu as the American artists featured in the Clark's summer exhibition, "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly," the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton have elicited a wide range of film adaptations, which this free series will survey.

"Visions Of A Gilded Age" Film Series: The House Of Mirth
"Visions of a Gilded Age" film series: The House of Mirth (2000, 140 min.) In Terence Davies’ stark but sensitive adaptation of the Wharton novel, Gillian Armstrong is the precarious social climber trying to make her way into New York society at the mercy of ruthless characters like Dan Ackroyd and Laura Linney.

David Storey's "Home"
Held on the main stage.

Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly
The first exhibition to examine "painting softly," a distinctive approach to painting exemplified in works by James McNeill Whistler and George Inness, Like Breath on Glass traces a quieter approach to painting that evolved around the turn of the twentieth century.

William Kentridge Prints and History of the Main Complaint
William Kentridge Prints represents over a third of the out put in the medium of printmaking for Kentridge, who works in the tradition of socially and politically engaged artists such as William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Honore Daumier, and Kathe Kollwitz.