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Keeping or Selling: What Is Next for Museum Deaccessioning?

Produced in partnership with FT, this panel discusses the advantages and pitfalls of deaccessioning for public museums and institutions and its implications for the public and for donors.
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Cultural Emergency Response: Protecting Culture in a Changing World

Produced in partnership with Prince Claus Fund, this panel discusses how to protect the art and icons of our past in future crises
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Conversations on Conservation: Current Issues and Future Strategies in Decision Making

Produced in partnership with ICOM-CC, this panel discusses and debates the key factors that should be considered when making conservation-related decisions
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Sustainability and the Arts: Museums and Public Institution Practices

Produced in partnership with AAMC, this panel discusses the art world’s efforts towards sustainable and climate-conscious modes of working
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Celebrating One of the Great Abstract Painters: A Tribute to Carmen Herrera’s Legacy

Produced in partnership with Apollo Magazine, this panel looks at the story of Herrera’s rise to art world fame and the workings of museums and the market
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At the Dawn of a New Age: Early 20th Century American Modernism

Produced in partnership with Apollo Magazine, this panel takes as a starting point a recent exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and explores how modernists used abstraction in response to the realities of a rapidly modernizing world
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Cultural Emergency Response: First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Crisis

Produced in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund, this panel discusses the urgent need and practicalities of the protection of culture in crisis situations
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The Future of Art Fairs

Produced in partnership with the Financial Times, this panel explores the place of art fairs now that they are back. What have we learned and what could come next?
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The Dynamics of Art Collecting Today

Produced in partnership with Bank of America, this panel explores the drivers and challenges of developing a collecting strategy, establishing and growing a collection, and leveraging one’s collection in dynamic ways
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Prolific Women Collectors and the Museums They Made

Produced in partnership with Apollo, explore the lives, collections, and legacies of Alice de Rothschild, Helene Kröller-Müller, and Marjorie Merriweather Post
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What Does the Future Hold for Art Fairs?

Four experts discuss future directions and possibilities for art fairs in this conversation from TEFAF Online 2021, produced in partnership with the Financial Times
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Civic Pride: The City as Collector

This discussion will explore what it means for a city to collect, or for a museum to collect objects relating to the history and artistic production of cities.
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Old Masters, New Spaces: Historical Art in Modernist Buildings

This discussion will place the Frick’s venture in the context of other modernist spaces in which historical collections have been displayed.
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Chapel Service: Sacred Spaces and Post-war Art

This conversation will explore the aesthetic and spiritual concerns of such projects, discussing their role in what is often described as a ‘post-religious’ world
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Art in Public: Redefining History, Memory, Identity

In 2018, the removal of Confederate monuments, both officially and through acts of resistance, and who and how to memorialize were our focus.
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Retrieving Lost Identities: The Black Figure in Art, Past and Present

One of the most urgent and compelling topics shaping the art world today is the pictorial representation of the black figure— a complex and highly charged subject whose dynamics extend far beyond the studio, gallery, and classroom.
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Judging Art: Vetting in the World's Top Museums, Art Fairs and Collections

This panel of specialists reveals their own backstage stories about how certain outstanding objects were chosen and others eliminated and the difficult decision-making that is a part of the process.
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Stone and Faith: Rebuilding Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s reconstruction whether viewed through a spiritual, aesthetic, or historic lens, will continue to fascinate and frustrate us. It will also yield practical lessons about a host of preservation, heritage, and its institutional role in the city itself.
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