Japanese architect Tadao Ando has managed to reconcile two very different structures at the Clark

Tadao Ando's intervention at the Clark Art Institute reconciles disparate elements

The Clark Art Institute building was already an anachronism when it opened. 1955 was the year of rock ’n’ roll and Disneyland, the year Nabokov published Lolita and Beckett premiered Waiting for Godot, the year Miles Davis got together with John Coltrane – and the year architect Daniel Perry completed a classical temple for the Clark in Williamstown, rural Massachusetts.

While the world was going modern, the Clark went memorial. Its white portico looks more like a mausoleum than a museum, which, in a way, it is. Just in front is a white marble planter with a subtly carved inscription that Sterling Clark and his wife Francine lie buried here....Continue Reading

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