Charles Kang
Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Drawings, Rijksmuseum

Join Charles Kang of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam for an informal conversation on his work as the Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Drawings. Kang will retrace the winding path—and the wide range of professional and scholarly training—that brought him to his latest post.

Charles Kang is Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Drawings at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Responsible for the museum’s collection of Dutch and European drawings, he is currently working on several projects, including one on the rise of private drawing societies in the Netherlands and another on the relationship between artistic drawing and early ethnography. He trained in eighteenth-century French art and visual culture and holds a PhD from Columbia University and an MA from Williams College in the history of art.

Tuesday, September 27, 12:15 pm
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

Lunch will be served starting at noon. Registration required..