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Harvard Curatorial Innovations Series Showcases Experts from MoMA and the Exploratorium in April 27 Lecture
Museums can be important spaces for exploring social, political, and historic experiences through art and science. Experts from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Exploratorium in San Francisco will discuss examples at Harvard’s second annual Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice Monday, April 27.
The event will be held from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Harvard University’s Northwest Building, B-103, 52 Oxford Street.
Leah Dickerman, the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss MoMA’s acclaimed new exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works (April 3–September 7, 2015). Tom Rockwell, director of the Exhibits and Media Studio at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, will talk about his institution’s interactive exhibition The Science of Sharing: Investigating Competition, Cooperation, and Social Interaction. A moderated conversation led by Harvard University professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will follow.
The program is co-sponsored by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and the Harvard Art Museums as part of the Harvard Museums’ Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice, a joint venture designed to give curating and exhibiting a central place in the cultural-intellectual landscape at Harvard. The series features internationally renowned curators who are doing groundbreaking work in the organization of exhibits and brings them to Harvard to provoke conversation and discussion about contemporary topics in the field.
See more about the speakers and the full press release.