Events: Upcoming
Allison Rudnick, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints
Activist Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Presented by The Art History Association as part of its 2025-26 Lecture Series, Art & Activism
Please join The Art History Association for the final talk in the '25-'26 Art & Activism Lecture Series, happening Thursday, March 19, at 7 PM EDT, with a Zoom talk. Registration is Required. Please use the link or QR code adjacent or below.
Our guest speaker is Allison Rudnick, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ABSTRACT: In this talk, Allison Rudnick will discuss her experience organizing two recent exhibitions that prominently featured activist art: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism (2021-2022) and Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. She will also discuss her work acquiring objects that originally served activist functions, such as protest posters, and consider the questions that arise when such objects enter a museum collection and are reframed within an institutional context.
Watermarked Image: Harry Gottlieb, Three Lane Traffic, 1937. Published by the W.P.A. Lithograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift New York City W.P.A., 1943 (43.33.591).
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AI-generated closed captioning will be provided. Please contact Art History Chair, Keely Heuer, at heuerk@newpaltz.edu or at (845) 257-3829 regarding other accommodations.
Date
Time
Location
Thursday, March 19
7:00 PM EDT
Via Zoom, Registration Required.
