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.

Producer
The Clark
Series
The Clark
Category
Lectures & Forums