Cocktail with the Curators of the Harvard Art Museum, Nov 13, 2008

Art, Cocktails, and Conversation with Curators and Directors of the Harvard Art Museum.

We’ll learn about the museum renovation designed by internationally acclaimed architect Renzo Piano, and the ways in which the renovated museum will enable its distinguished collections to be accessed more roadly, and utilized in new and innovative ways, by the Harvard and public communities it serves.
Of special interest is the Fellows program: the Harvard Art Museum is engaging alumni in Boston, New York, and London through regular curator-led visits to public and private art exhibitions in these cities. Paris could be next!
As a highlight of the evening, Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Fogg, will present a short talk entitled Snap Judgments: Positioning Photography at the Harvard Art Museum, in which she will reflect on the innovative ways that her department, since its inception, has engaged with contemporary artists, and the impact on the evolution of the Fogg’s extraordinary photography collection.

Curator-led Private Viewing of Henri Cartier-Bresson / Walker Evans, “Photographing America, 1929-1947”, at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nov 13, 2008

 
The Club and the Harvard Art Museum are also pleased to invite you to join Harvard Art Museum photography curator Deborah Martin Kao for an aperitif and private viewing of Henri Cartier-Bresson / Walker Evans, Photographing America, 1929-1947. This will take place at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Welcoming us will be Foundation director and exhibit curator Agnès Sire.
Many may remember the lectures by Harvard Prof. Robert Coles responding to Walker Evans’ portraits.
This exhibit illustrates the “dialogue” between the American Evans (1903-1975), “master of head-on documentary” and the French Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), “virtuoso of the decisive moment and geometry” who each “marked the 20th century” (C. Guillot, Le Monde, 25.09.08).
Deborah Martin Kao will help us to look deeply at these photos and will comment on Walker Evans and Cartier-Bresson’s connection to the Fogg Museum. By participating in this private viewing Club members will have a taste of future activities should the Harvard Art Museum Fellows program take root in Paris.