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A Legacy of Art Collecting – The Rosen Family, the Art Market, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday July 10, 2025 at 5:30pm
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Thursday July 10, 2025 at 5:30pm
This lecture from Dr. Christine Brennan will explore the art collecting activities of the Rosen family, situating them within the broader context of New York’s art scene. It examines their relationships with prominent art dealers and compares their acquisitions with those of contemporaneous collectors, offering insights into tastes and trends that shaped private collections of the period. Particular attention is given to the Rosen family’s connections to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including their respective activities during World War II.
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Dr. Brennan serves as Provenance Researcher and Collections Manager for the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. A specialist in the history of collecting Brennan’s expertise focuses on the market for medieval art in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and America. She has contributed to exhibitions at The Met and the Bard Graduate Center including Making The Met, 1870–2020 (2020–2021) and Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013), respectively. She earned her PhD from the Bard Graduate Center with a dissertation titled, The Brummer Gallery and the Market for Medieval Art in Paris and New York, 1906-1949, and an MA in history and a certificate in Museum Studies from New York University.
Stay for a 7:00pm performance by Caroline Shaw & So Percussion featuring Ringdown. Click here for tickets and info.
WHO TURNS OUT THE LIGHT is a very special evening-length staged performance of some of the most dynamic, ecstatic, and just plain gorgeous music being made anywhere by anyone. Built around the current tour of their “hypnotically beautiful” (BBC Radio 3) new album Rectangles and Circumstance, this performance will be augmented by songs from their previous collaborative work Let the Soil Play its Simple Part, as well as an interlude from Caroline’s cinematic pop duo Ringdown. Recent compositions by Sō members round out this band-generated theatrical experience. Click here to learn more.
