HepworthWakefield's video: Hepworth Research Network Launch: Introduction: Michael White University of York

Michael White is a Professor in History of Art working chiefly on the interwar avant-gardes. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Theo van Doesburg and has a special interest in De Stijl and modernism in the Netherlands. He was consultant curator of the 2010 Tate Modern exhibition Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World, advised the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag on the display of its permanent Mondrian and De Stijl collections, and was the external curator of the exhibition Mondrian and his Studios at Tate Liverpool in 2014 as featured on the BBC. Michael is also the author of Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War (Yale University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of Virgin Microbe: Essays on Dada (Northwestern University Press, 2013). The dual interests he has in abstraction and Dada are informing his latest research projects. The launch of the Hepworth Research Network was a two-day event which brought together participants from across the fields of art history, fine art, curation, conservation and music to share knowledge and encourage cross-disciplinary discussions around the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth and her contemporaries.