Breakfast with the Director

Fellow and Sponsor members

The semiannual Breakfast with the Director offers a rare opportunity to join Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, for an engaging conversation with an art world insider. This fall’s event features Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research at the Whitney.

Over the course of the twentieth century, many artists embraced unstable and ephemeral media, in some cases through expediency and in others through deliberate principle. For much of her career, Mancusi-Ungaro, who founded the Whitney’s conservation department in 2001, has been formulating new conservation approaches that guide efforts to preserve these types of objects. In the current moment, conservation continues to evolve in surprising ways, responding to the diversity of approaches and materials adopted by today’s artists. The event will begin with a light breakfast and short conversation introducing conservation at the Whitney, and then continue with a brief tour of the conservation studio and an in-gallery discussion of a few works of art from the Museum’s collection.

Visit the conservation webpage for more information, including a recent in-depth article from the New Yorker. 

Fellow and Sponsor members are invited to this event: The invitation is for two individuals per membership household. Registration instructions will be provided by email.

To join or upgrade, call (212) 570-3641.