The Modern Black Subject

The annual Sellie Bernstingle lecture, named in honor of the late RISD Museum Docent, will feature Denise Murrell, PhD, the Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She joined The Met in January 2020 as Associate Curator, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art. She was the curator of the exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (October 2018- February 2019) at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery, as the Wallach’s Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2014-2019).She has taught art history at Columbia University in New York and in Paris and has given public lectures at numerous museums and universities in the US, the Americas and Europe.

Free. Registration required.