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DESCRIPTION:Christian Larsen will deliver the Alumni Spotlight Lecture on W
 ednesday\, March 16 at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “Defining Modern and Con
 temporary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Christian Larsen is Associat
 e Curator of Modern Decorative Arts and Design at the Metropolitan Museum 
 of Art. In his previous position as Curator at the Wolfsonian-Florida Inte
 rnational University (2013–15)\, his exhibition and catalogue Philodendron
 : From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern (2015) received an Emily Hall T
 remaine Foundation Exhibition Award. As a former curator in the Architectu
 re & Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (2000–08)\, he organize
 d several exhibitions including Digitally Mastered (2006–07)\, 50 Years of
  Helvetica (2007–08)\, and Ateliers Jean Prouvé (2008–09). He received his
  BA from Amherst College (2000) and his MA (2010) and MPhil (2013) from Ba
 rd Graduate Center\, where he is a doctoral candidate finishing his disser
 tation Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Mat
 erial Culture. His recent publications include two chapters in History of 
 Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture\, 1400–2000 (Yale University 
 Press).At Bard Graduate Center\, Larsen will reflect on the past and possi
 ble future directions of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century decorativ
 e arts and design collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Under the 
 leadership of Director Tom Campbell and Chairman of Modern and Contemporar
 y Art Sheena Wagstaff\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is poised to redefi
 ne its narrative of modern and contemporary art and design through two key
  initiatives: the Met Breuer and a new wing under development with David C
 hipperfield Architects. These ambitious projects present a rare occasion t
 o methodically rethink the scope and mission of the collection and the dep
 artment’s programming. In this talk\, Larsen will review the history of ke
 y objects\, typologies\, curators\, and staff that built the collection to
  its present state as a means of testing terms and parameters for an evolv
 ing collection.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Alumni Spotlight Lecture—Defining Modern and 
 Contemporary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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