A Mysterious (But Not Scary) Museum Job: Exhibitions Registrar | Behind the Scenes | Sixties Surreal

Oct 29, 2025

What's scarier than a hairy, giggling artwork in an empty gallery? Probably a lot of things, but this is still pretty creepy. Registrar Brenna Cothran lets us sneak a peek at how she uses a flashlight to examine Lynn Hershman Leeson's Giggling Machine, Self Portrait as Blonde (1968), on view in Sixties Surreal. Psst: Leeson will be delivering this year's Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney on November 5—don't miss it:


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Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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