Events

Event Description

Alyce Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a lecture entitled: "The American Wing at 100"    In 2024, the iconic American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its 100th anniversary with a series of gallery reinstallations, interpretive realignment, and strategic collection development. The new arrangement of painting, sculpture, and decorative art in the American Wing shines alongside commentary from community partners, contemporary interventions, and vignettes on conservation science. Join Alyce Perry Englund as she illustrates the Met’s approach and her specific challenges as a curator in revitalizing visitor engagement with the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American furniture collections.