Michael Conforti, former director of the Clark, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Tadao Ando-designed Clark Center. In his July 27th talk, Conforti reviews the purpose & process of the Clark’s transformative campus expansion.
Exhibition co-curators Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, and Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director, introduce Guillaume Lethière and provide an inside look at the development of this ambitious exhibition.
David-Jeremiah speaks with Robert Wiesenberger, the Clark's curator of contemporary projects, about the underlying subjects in his work, examining the Lamborghini sports car and the Spanish bullfight as lenses on Black masculinity in America.
Alexandra J. Gold discusses artist book collaborations between contemporary painters and poets. Her presentation highlights Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley and renowned visual artist Robert Indiana’s Numbers (1968).
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Igor Simões (State University of Rio Grande do Sul / Clark Fellow) explores the absence of Black Brazilian artists in the context of the international debate on art and the history of Afro-Diasporic art.
