Making Collections, Revealing Histories: Alan Michelson and Every Ocean Hughes in Conversation

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented an afternoon of discussion reflecting on the category of American art today through the lens of museum collecting and artistic practices. The conversations explored how exhibition making can propel new art historical narratives and how artists can inspire audiences to understand American art and history from different perspectives. Artists Alan Michelson and Every Ocean Hughes present their recent projects that engage with the Whitney’s current site at 99 Gansevoort Street and invite viewers to consider underknown histories embedded in both place and institution. The conversation is moderated by Kim Conaty, Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. This program is co-presented by the Lunder Institute for American Art, a part of the Colby College Museum of Art. Lunder Institute @ invites institutions to be in conversation with one another and challenges them to look critically at American art, its history, its future and its evolution. Lunder Institute @ the Whitney Museum of American Art culminates the inaugural year of the Lunder Institute @ program.