Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith will discuss Turkey’s art world of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Abby Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II.
Lecture: Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy w/ Sarah-Neel Smith
Sarah-Neel Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art
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Sarah-Neel Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where her work focuses on art of the modern Middle East, modernism in a global and comparative perspective, the history of museums, and post-9/11 visual culture. Her current book project focuses on the intersection of art and international discourses about economic development in Turkey after WWII.
Co-sponsored by NYU's Grey Art Gallery in conjunction with its exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Grey Collection, on view September 10-December 7, 2019.