Join SVMoA for a livestream conversation with Dita Amory, the Robert Lehman Curator in Charge at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the exhibition Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck. Amory curated the exhibition along with consulting curator Anna-Maria Bonsdorff, director of the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki. Schjerfbeck is beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, and the exhibition at The Met is the first to showcase the artist’s work in a major United States museum. About the exhibition, Amory writes, “Seeing Silence looks beyond art history’s cultural mainstream to one woman who overcame immense struggles to produce a powerful body of work, highlighting her rightful place in the story of modernism.” The exhibition has garnered rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and Ocula (which named it one of the top 10 exhibitions to see around the world).

Enjoy the talk from your home via Zoom or at an in-person gathering at the Museum. There will be time for questions after the talk.

This conversation is presented as part of SVMoA’s new series Museum Passport, talks on artists featured in major museum exhibitions around the United States.