Meet the Curator: The Recordings and Stirring the Melting Pot
Event Details:
Have you ever wanted to chat with our curators about how exhibitions at The New York Historical come together? Now's your chance! Join curator Keren Ben-Horin in the exhibitions The Recordings: Voices from the The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes Tapes and Stirring the Melting Pot: Photographs from The New York Historical Collections and learn what it was like to pull these moving and expansive shows together. Ben-Horin will briefly introduce exhibitions and highlight a few of her favorite items before opening up the conversation to your questions.
Meet the Curator is a monthly program that invites visitors to engage in casual conversation with members of The New York Historical's curatorial team. Come to talk and ask questions about our current exhibitions and the objects on display.
Keren Ben-Horin is a fashion historian and a curatorial scholar at the Center for Women’s History. A former Mellon Predoc in Women’s History at the Center, she is a PhD candidate in History at NYU. She co-authored the fashion history survey She's Got Legs: A History of Hemlines and Fashion and edited the book The Sweater: A History.
Location:
1st floor, Robert H. and Clarice Smith South Gallery, The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
Ticket Instructions:
Free with admission. No registration required.
