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What Are Museums For? Art and Science: Two Ways of Knowing and Navigating the World
- Start:
- November 3, 2011 6:30 pm
- End:
- November 3, 2011 7:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free;reception follows; cash bar
- Venue:
- Carnegie Lecture Hall
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Address:
- United States
This ongoing series of Thursday-night events looks deeply at what makes museums tick and what they offer the culture at large.
Lynn Zelevansky and Sam Taylor, director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, exchange views on similarities and differences in scientific and artistic thinking, and how these are reflected in museums.
- What Are Museums For? Curating a Life in Art: How Careers in Museums Happen
- What Are Museums For? Duane Michals: One Artist’s Journey, Told in the First Person
- What Are Museums For? Exhibitionists Unite: How Art Exhibitions Are Born
- What Are Museums For? The Art World and AIDS: From 1980s Devastation to Current-Day Censorship
- What Are Museums For? The Local and the Global: Defining a Unique Vision for CMA
- What Are Museums For? Curating the World: Making the Carnegie International
- What Are Museums For? Art and Science: Two Ways of Knowing and Navigating the World