Making Sixties Surreal: A Curatorial Roundtable
Wed, Nov 19, 2025
6:30 pm
Jean Conner, Are You a Springmaid? II, 1960. Collage, 11 7/8 × 9 3/4in. (30.2 × 24.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Sheree and Jerry Friedman 2018.204. 
Conner Family Trust and Artist Rights Society (ARS)
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Join us for an evening of conversation with Whitney curators Dan Nadel, Laura Phipps, Scott Rothkopf, and Elisabeth Sussman on the process of organizing Sixties Surreal, a groundbreaking survey that proposes an alternative art history of the 1960s in the United States. In dialogue with curator and scholar Michelle Kuo, the panel will delve into the behind-the-scenes research process, the development of key themes, and the works of several featured artists as well as the recontextualization of these works in today’s world—an echo of how artists of the 1960s sought to reconnect art with lived experience.
Speakers
Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints
Laura Phipps, Associate Curator
Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director
Elisabeth Sussman, Curator
Michelle Kuo, Chief Curator at Large and Publisher, Museum of Modern Art, moderator
This program is funded by the Flack Family in memory of long-time Whitney docent Marianne L. Flack.
