Edlavitch Lecture Series: Helen Molesworth

Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm

Join Helen Molesworth for a talk titled “The Nightshift” about the process of acquiring works for art museums. Helen is a writer, podcaster, and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. In 2023 Phaidon published Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include Death of an Artist, a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, and the inaugural season of Recording Artists with The Getty. Her major museum exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture; and Work Ethic. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.

Space is limited; online registration required.

This is a free Members-only event.

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Support for this program was provided by the Edlavitch Lecture Series Endowment.