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WCMA – Tibetan Sacred Tattoo

Lama Tashi Norbu, traditional Thangka painter & Buddhist monk, featured in the current WCMA exhibition: "Across Shared Waters", designed a tattoo based on Tibetan astrology & created a personal buddhist mantra for Williams College student Isaac Rivera. Norbu chants the mantra as he & N.Adams artist Alexis Rosasco tattoo the design on Rivera's back. The design is meant to empower Rivera's lives for eons.

Producer: The Clark
Series: Window on Williams
Category: Lectures & Forums

The Clark – Ancient and Modern ‘Body Worlds’ with Kathryn Howley

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Kathryn Howley (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU / Beinecke Fellow) argues that the bodily preoccupation of ancient Egyptian art is one reason why it has proven unusually appealing to modern audiences, ever since the beginnings of modern Egyptology in Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798.

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Series: The Clark
Category: Lectures & Forums

The Clark – Sehwan’s Noise Fields Of Women’s Densities, Intensities, Entanglements, and Cacophonies

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Shundana Yusaf (University of Utah / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow) explores the dynamic exchange between listeners, sound, and space in the tomb of Lal Shabaz Marwandi. Located in Sehwan, Pakistan, the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Marwandi is the most cacophonous shrine in South Asia.

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Series: The Clark
Category: Lectures & Forums

The Clark – Invisible Hands with Margaret S. Graves

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Margaret S. Graves (Indiana University / Florence Gould Foundation Fellow) discusses craft skills in the Middle East. These skills are usually portrayed as dying out in the nineteenth century, but were in fact redirected toward a new market generated by the colonial project: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.

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Series: The Clark
Category: Lectures & Forums

The Clark – Portals, The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch

Exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger introduced Paul Goesch, the subject of the Clark’s spring exhibition in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper. Goesch (1885–1940) produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany.

Producer: The Clark
Series: The Clark
Category: Lectures & Forums