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Patricia Walsh

Public Art and Civic Design Manager

Americans for the Arts

202.371.2830 x2024

 

From: Brooke Kamin Rapaport <bkaminrapaport@madisonsquarepark.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 1:52 PM
To: Patricia Walsh <pwalsh@artsusa.org>
Subject: RSVP Now for our Annual Symposium on Public Art

 

Dear Patricia;

Madison Square Park Conservancy's annual symposium will be held on the morning of Friday, June 1 at SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street) in New York City. Complete information is below. If you are in New York then, we hope that you will attend and, of course, we welcome any of your colleagues.

All best,

Brooke


Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Deputy Director and

Martin Friedman Senior Curator

Mad. Sq. Art

Madison Square Park Conservancy
Eleven Madison Avenue | 15th Floor | New York NY 10010
bkaminrapaport@madisonsquarepark.org| P: 212.786.5726 

 



Removing Public Art | June 1, 2018, 9AM - 12PM

 

Free and open to the public. Reservations required: symposium@madisonsquarepark.org

 

 

The role of public art has been at the center of the complex controversy over eliminating Confederate and other historic monuments and contemporary outdoor sculpture. Cities, museums and civic organizations are taking active positions in removing, reconsidering or recontextualizing statuary. “Removing Public Art” will be a forum for scholars, politicians, cultural leaders and artists to lead a conversation that strives to find contemporary solutions to historic monuments.

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Welcome

Sheila Kearney Davidson, Chair, MSPC Board of Trustees
Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director & Martin Friedman Senior Curator, Mad. Sq. Art
 

 

Panel Discussion

Jason Farago | Moderator, Art Critic, The New York Times
 
Gonzalo Casals, Executive Director, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, and Member, Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, New York

Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Deputy Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
 
Melvin Edwards, Artist, New Jersey

Siri Engberg, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions Management, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 
Dr. Martha Sandweiss, Professor of History and Director, The Princeton & Slavery Project, Princeton University

 

Keynote Conversation

Alison Saar
Artist, Los Angeles

Julián Zugazagoitia
Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director & CEO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Artist Presentations

Diana Al-Hadid
Artist, Brooklyn

Bryan C. Lee Jr.
Founder, Paper Monuments,
New Orleans

Arlene Shechet
Artist, New York and
Hudson Valley

 

 







Removing Public Art is made possible by generous support from The Henry Luce Foundation.

Royalton Park Avenue is the hotel sponsor of Removing Public Art.

Park Hours: 6:00am — 11:00pm
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