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Glass House Presents at New Canaan Library: Juliet Kinchin on the Modern Interior

December 12, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

New Canaan Library and The Glass House are pleased to welcome Juliet Kinchin, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Ms. Kinchin appears as part of Glass House Presents at New Canaan Library, an occasional series of talks and events about architecture, design, and Modernism in New Canaan and beyond, organized by The Glass House and New Canaan Library. The event will be held on Monday, December 12 at 6:30 p.m., preceded by a light reception at 6 p.m. Please register to attend at newcanaanlibrary.org.
MoMA’s Juliet Kinchin will speak about her current exhibition How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior, which explores and examines a range of environments – including Philip Johnson’s 1930 New York City apartment – with the aim of exploring the complex collaborative partnerships, materials, and processes that have shaped the modernist interior.
Juliet Kinchin is Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. Since joining MoMA in 2008 she has organized exhibitions including What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1939-55, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, Postwar Polish Posters, New Typography, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000,
Designing Modern Women 1900-2000, Brute Material, Fiber into Form, and Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye. Kinchin has worked as a curator in Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where she was formerly the Founding Director of the graduate program in Decorative Arts and Design History. She has also held faculty positions in the history of art and design at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Bard Graduate Center in New York in 1999 and 2002-03.

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Date:
December 12, 2016
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://newcanaanlibrary.org/events/glass-house-presents-juliet-kinchin-on-the-modern-interior

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New Canaan, 06840

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New Canaan Library + The Glass House
Phone
203 594 5010
Email
epaige@newcanaanlibrary.org
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