Mar 20 2017
Will Gompertz
BBC Arts Editor
Will Gompertz is the BBC Arts Editor and a respected commentator on The Arts.Voted one of the World’s Top 50 Creative Thinkers by New York’s Creativity Magazine, Will was previously a Director of The Tate Gallery. During his time there, he was responsible for Tate Online – the UK’s most popular art website. He set up a TV production unit, making arts programmes for Channel 4 and ITV and he also created Tate Etc, the UK’s highest-circulation art magazine.
“We’re brought up to be intimidated by art”
Will has advised many arts and media organisations and has been a board member of the National Campaign for the Arts. As a writer he has penned numerous articles for, amongst others, The Times and The Guardian. In the summer of 2009, he wrote and performed a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe called Double Art History, a light-hearted lecture on the story of modern art.[/expand]
Will has great passion, experience and knowledge of the arts. He is a great communicator and is full of ideas about how new media can be use more effectively to share arts news with audiences. He gives an introduction to modern art in the guise of a classroom lesson. [/expand]
Will Gompertz’s passion for art is expressed with wit and verve. He is an impressive speaker who makes audiences laugh from the start with his self-deprecating humour, trying to make art funny.
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Topics
“Think Like an Artist”
Art to Inspire Commercial Innovation and Creative Problem Solving
Net Art
Are Libraries Out of Date?
Arts Role in Education
What are you Looking at?
Publications
2015
Think Like an Artist. . . and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life
2012
What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
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