By now, 41 of the exhibitions connected to the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project have opened across Southern California, and one of those exhibits contains material borrowed from the Clark!  PST seeks to investigate and celebrate the birth and life of the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1989, and encompasses every major L.A. art movement…

There are lots of new things in the works at the Clark and Center…  Here’s a short round-up! Tonight marks the opening of the exhibit All Things New: Imperialism and Impact at the Clark (during our Open House celebrating the arrival of new Head Librarian Gerald Cloud and Center Director Barbara Fuchs).  The exhibit will run…

Last week, the UCLA Newsroom featured a nice article about the Clark/Center’s chamber music series and highlights some of the performers we can look forward to seeing during the 2011-2012 season.  Learn more at the link above!

All Things New: An Open House at the Clark Library Tuesday, October 11, 4:00pm Please join the Center and Clark staff as we welcome our new director, Barbara Fuchs, and new head librarian, Gerald Cloud. Learn more about their visions for expanding programs and the Clark’s holdings, and be the first to view our new…

William Andrews Clark, Jr. not only was a bibliophile, he founded the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and subsidized the first fifteen years of its existence.  Reflecting Clark’s tastes, the Library owns an important collection of printed music published in Britain dating from about 1680 to 1810.  The jewel of this collection is the compositions of…

Tuesday, Oct. 11 – All Things New: An Open House at the Clark Library Stop in to meet our new Director, Barbara Fuchs, and our new Head Librarian, Gerald Cloud, as well as view the newest exhibition, All Things New: Imperialism and Impact, curated by Rebecca Fenning Marschall and Nina Schneider. All Things New: Imperialism…

Since our post of one of Mr Clark’s aboard-ship recordings was so popular, we thought we would share another with you this week.  This one was recorded on March 3, 1930 on the Ile de France, and was directed to librarian and assistant Cora Sanders who was overseeing the library at home in Los Angeles….

In March 1930, our founder William Andrews Clark, Jr. sent several aluminum dictation disks home to Los Angeles from onboard the ship Ile de France, which was bound from France to New York City.  These contained his audio letters to Caroline Estes Smith and Cora Sanders, his deputies at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the…

Thanks to all who were able to make it to the library last Friday for the opening of Oscar Wilde and the Visual Art(ist)s of the Fin-de-Siecle!  We hope that this will be the beginning of many more Clark croquet parties in the future! For those of you who were not able to come to…

Our Interim Head Librarian/Head Cataloger, Nina Schneider, has a post up today on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Manifold Greatness blog, describing our recent exhibition on the King James Bible. The Manifold Greatness blog and the website documenting the Manifold Greatness exhibit are well worth your time!  This exhibition is now on view at the Bodleian Library…