Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

The more heavily promoted exhibit, Pisarro's People, was certainly interesting; I learned a great deal about Camille Pissaro's family, friends, and politics. And I was delighted to see my dear friend, John Singer Sargent's stunning work in white. The great surprise and delight was seeing the features photo exhibit.
The image if you click on this blog entry's title, a photo taken by Thomas Struth in 1992, does no justice to the original 8'x12' I saw hanging at the top of a Clark Institute (Williamstown MA) stairway. Something about coming to it from below compressed the image and blurred even more the distinction between the people in the gallery and those in the painting. The collapse of space and time was startling, even pleasurable, without being disrespectful to the present of the visitors, the past of the painting, or the distant past of the image depicted in the painting.



Highly recommend.