The Durer exhibit at the Clark Institute in Williamstown is worth seeing, although I found its focus on "gender anxiety" a little odd. This village in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts (not far from Albany) also has the Williams College Museum of Art, where I've never been and which is closed through Feb. 3. After that you can see an exhbit titled "Who Can Dance? Performing Gender in African Masquerades."
At the Clark (where admission is free from November through May) there is always the permanent collection, where you can see Gainsbrough's vividly beautiful portrait of Elizabeth Linley, Boucher's Venus in the clouds, and Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's not young but lively Bacchante.
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