backstory50: Save the date for our next Yaseen Lecture
I wrote to you in April about Helen and Leonard Yaseen, former residents of Larchmont who were among the inaugural members of the Board of the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Avid collectors who also believed in the value of modern and contemporary art scholarship, in 1974 the Yaseens founded a lecture series of the fine arts here at the Neuberger and a second series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Twenty-three (23) lectures brought prominent authors, artists, scientists, poets, composers, performance artists, activists, historians, critics, and scholars to the Neuberger and Purchase College.
As part of our ongoing 50th anniversary celebration, our 2024 Yaseen Lecture will be a program centered on feminism and body freedom. The talk will be held on Thursday, November 14, at the Museum and via livestream.
Purchase College alumna Emily McElwreath ’05 (Art History), an independent curator and host of The Art Career Podcast, will moderate the discussion. She will be joined by speakers Marilyn Minter, an internationally recognized artist who creates photographs, painting, and videos that offer nuanced representations of women; and Jasmine Wahi, founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey, who is also a multifaceted curatorial practice.
The discussion will explore contemporary theoretical frameworks related to feminism, bodily autonomy, and gender equity, with particular attention on how contemporary art, in conjunction with community organizing and activism, functions as a transformative agent, extending its influence beyond the realm of the arts. It’s an interesting topic led by interesting speakers. See their bios and register here.
Thanks, again, to Roger Yaseen and his family for their continuing support of the Museum in honor of his parents, and to The New York Community Trust for stewarding the fund.
I look forward to seeing you at next month’s lecture.
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director, Neuberger Museum of Art
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