The Anatomy of an Exhibition—Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art. Artwork © Les Heritiers Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Lecture M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Senior curator Jodi Hauptman and senior conservator Karl Buchberg, both of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss the innovative model of curatorial practice they developed while working on their internationally acclaimed exhibition, Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, currently on display at MoMA.
What are the benefits of this new model? In what ways might art-historical interpretation draw upon yet also exceed the findings of conservation science? Special attention will be paid to Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952), the conservation of which provided initial impetus for this wide-ranging exhibition.
Cosponsored by Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Harvard Art Museums
The event will be held in Menschel Hall, Lower Level.
Free and open to the public. Please enter via the Broadway Street entrance.
Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.