Williams Women at the Helm of American Art

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Roundtable discussion with a dynamic group of alumnae on the state of American art. Moderated by Barbara Ernst Prey '79, artist and appointee to the National Council on the Arts. Participants: Darsie Alexander '91, Chief Curator of the Walker Art Center; Laura Hoptman '83, Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art; Shamim M. Momin '95, former Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria and founder of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division; and Nancy Spector '84, Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This discussion introduces the significance of the next generation of women to break into "The Williams Art Mafia." (Filmed and edited by Petra Szilagyi.)

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