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Article: A Display of Harmony
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 24, 1995
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Michael Clark wears many hats.
Not the trademark fedora of his hero, the late German artist and
iconoclast Joseph Beuys, but the hats of the artist, gallery owner,
curator and activist that he is. Like Beuys, he believes in the
power, the obligation of the artist to rejuvenate society.
"Let's face it," he says. "The planet is out of balance."
His black ponytail is flecked with gray, but he speaks with the
energy of a teenager as he prepares to host a reception tonight in
his Georgetown gallery for a group of transcontinental walkers. Led
by the 82-year-old Algonquin Chief William Commanda, the participants
in "Sunbow 5: Walk for the Earth" are in Washington for a three-day
stopover as they ...