Live Performance & Film Screening
Friday, March 20th
Program time to be announced
Program supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424
Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
Outside guests enter on the south side of East 69th St., between Park Ave. & Lexington Ave.
Save the date! Additional details and registration information coming soon.
Furthering the exhibition Speaking in Pairs and its emphasis on dialogue and duality, paired speakers explore themes centered on the power of representation. The program also features vocalist Beth Griffen performing a powerful English rendition of Marieluise. A Report by Kerstin Specht, joined by dancer and poet Yehuda Hyman, bringing together embodied performance and layered conversations.
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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.
The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.
ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES
Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.
For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org
PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu
