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Dear Colleague,
We write to request your assistance letting the conservation community know about Bard Graduate Center Gallery’s current exhibition: Conserving Active Matter—the first exhibition to explore conservation’s history, thinking, practice, and future. Scroll to learn more about the exhibition and its related events.
Conserving Active Matter is on view at 18 West 86th Street, New York City, through July 10, 2022. Museum professionals’ and AAM members’ tickets are always complimentary. Tickets can be reserved at bgc.bard.edu/tickets.
About the Exhibition:
Conserving Active Matter examines four central questions: what is conservation; how are things active; who acts on objects, when and why; and where is the future of conservation? Featuring more than 100 objects from five continents, Conserving Active Matter looks at different philosophies and traditions of conservation, and the variety of ways that objects change over time, whether by natural or human intervention. Objects examined include a Korean shaman painting, a paleolithic hand axe, baseball cards, the IBM Leapfrog (a prototype for a touchscreen tablet dating from the 1990s), works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Neri Oxman, and Hopi “living clay” ceramic canteens.
The exhibition was curated by Soon Kai Poh, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation as a Human Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Bard Graduate Center (BGC) and Peter N. Miller, dean, with faculty members Ivan Gaskell, Aaron Glass, Meredith Linn, and Jennifer Mass. Learn more by visiting the exhibition’s online companion and its associated publication.

Related Events:
Wednesday, April 27 at 6 pm
Free | On Zoom and in person at 38 West 86th St
Friday, May 6, 9 am–5:45 pm
Free | On Zoom and in person at 38 West 86th Street
Saturday, May 7, 9 am–5:45 pm
Free | On Zoom and in person at 38 West 86th St
Wednesday, May 18 at 6 pm
Free | On Zoom and in person at 38 West 86th St
Saturday, May 28 at 6 pm
In person at 18 West 86th Street
$12–$15; exhibition admission included
Wednesday, June 1 at 6 pm
In person at 18 West 86th St
$12–$15; exhibition admission included
Wednesday, June 8 at 6 pm
In person at 18 West 86th Street
$12–$15; exhibition admission included

If you could share information about the exhibition and its related events with your network and listserv(s), it would be much appreciated! Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make that easier. You are also welcome to pass along our information to anyone you believe may be interested in contacting us directly to learn more.
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