Object Lessons: Conversations with Sophie Taeuber-Arp

​Join an extraordinary group of creators and thinkers to explore Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s prescient, boundary-busting work. We’ve asked our special guests to choose objects in the exhibition Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction and reflect on their meaning today.

​Session 1
Moderated by Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture

Amanda Williams - Visual artist 
Sheila Hicks - Visual artist 
Jomo Tariku - Artist and industrial designer
Irma Boom - Book maker 

Session 2
Moderated by Leah Dickerman, Director of Research Programs

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener - Dance artists
Pia Camil - Visual artist
Yve-Alain Bois - Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

This program was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin, and made possible by the Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Seminar and Lecture Endowment Fund, established by Jeanne and Bob Savitt, Kristen and A. Andrew Shapiro, and Robert F. Shapiro, Jr.

Full program details, see the Object Lessons event page here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/...

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