Garth Clark, CFile’s Chief Editor, is taking part in New York-based 92Y’s “Seven Days of Genius,” a diverse group of speakers and performers that includes Brentano String Quartet and Vijay Iyer, David Petraeus, Chelsea Handler, New York Times’ columnist David Brooks, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and others .
Clark, a leading writer and commentator on modern and contemporary art, will present a Virtual Clay live Internet lecture on the Chinese activist-artist Ai Weiwei. Clark will lecture on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 7 p.m. (Eastern Time). Registration costs start at $25. Participants can converse with the speaker in real time.
The Virtual Clay series offers first of a kind, real-time online classes that gather a vibrant community of artists, designers and art historians to speak with you about important topics in ceramics. The conversations are meant to challenge preconceptions and explore new territory, inspiring you to think about the world in fresh and different ways. All of this is within the comfort of your home, studio or classroom.
Clark has written, edited and contributed to more than 60 books on ceramic art and he authored more than 200 essays, reviews and monographs that have been translated into dozens of languages. His CFile website is a non-profit global online campus for contemporary ceramics in art, design and architecture.
Ai Weiwei is considered one of the great artists of our time and he has gained even more fame because of his opposition to and persecution by the current Chinese government, which seeks to limit his influence. And now his name is on the front pages once more because of the smashing of a pot in a museum show, one of his own artworks this time. This act (vandalism? solidarity?) will be part of Clark’s probing presentation.
Above image: Garth Clark speaking on his 2013 lecture tour in Europe about the artist Ai Weiwei.
Read Garth Clark’s take on Ai Weiwei’s vase being smashed at PAMM
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