Byline: DANIELLE FURFARO STAFF WRITER
Williamstown, Mass.
From the front, the Clark Art Institute's new Stone Hill Center looks like a blank slate. A bare concrete wall fortresses the building, breaking only in the middle, where it shows the matching stark surface of the center itself.
Take the few steps beyond this barrier and around the tile pathway, and you are greeted by a pair of stone sculptures. The path continues under a glass door, into the building and out the other side to a terrace with a mind-blowing view of the Green Mountains.
The Stone Hill Center will open to the public today with its inaugural exhibition, "Homer and Sargent From the Clark." Paintings from American artists Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent from the museum's collection will be featured. Also opening today, in the Clark's main gallery, is "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly."
The center was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, who is known as a master of building into a rural landscape …
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