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Today, Tuesday, October 27
Artist talk 7:30 PM
Meet American artist Fred Wilson, who questions—and asks us to question—how museum curators present history and artistic value, and how cultural institutions express biases. Wilson creates new contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting and non-traditional pairings of objects. In his talk, “The Silent Message of the Museum,” he will discuss his work in relation to museums as environments of cultural production, and how the museum has shaped his practice as an artist.
Wilson was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954, and lives and works in New York. He is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1999), the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2003) and the 2009 Cheek Medal. He is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Object, Exhibition and Knowledge at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Funded by the Semans Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
ABOVE: Photo of Fred Wilson by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Wildenstein.
TOP LEFT: Photo of Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, by Hank Willis Thomas.
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