2024 Curatorial Leadership Summit

Curatorial
Leadership
Summit

The Armory Show 2024 marks the seventh annual Curatorial Leadership Summit.

The Armory Show’s Curatorial Leadership Summit is an annual, invitation-only day-long program that aims to foster innovation in the curatorial landscape.

This year the Curatorial Leadership Summit will be chaired by Lauren Cornell.

Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator at the Hessel Museum and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, will chair the 2024 Curatorial Leadership Summit.

Lauren Cornell
Lauren Cornell is Chief Curator at the Hessel Museum and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. At CCS Bard, Cornell has curated multiple monographic exhibitions including surveys of Sky Hopinka, Leidy Churchman, Nil Yalter, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Martine Syms, and Dara Birnbaum. Previously, Cornell was the Curator and Associate Director of Technology Initiatives at the New Museum. From 2005–2012, Cornell served as Executive Director of Rhizome, an organization that commissions, exhibits, and preserves art engaged with technology. She is a coeditor, with Ed Halter, of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century (New Museum and MIT Press, 2015), and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and art magazines. Cornell is a recipient of ArtTable’s New Leadership Award.

Photo Carrie Schneide

Recent videos

Video Javits Center

Curatorial Leadership Summit: Public Discussion | (In)Vision: A Conversation with Michael Govan, LACMA

Friday, September 8, 2023

Featuring Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

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About the Curatorial Leadership Summit

Discover the Curatorial Leadership Summit. Watch the overview presentation of this program dedicated to the advancement of curatorial research. The next in-person Curatorial Leadership Summit, chaired by Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be held in the Armory Live Theater at the Javits Center on Friday, September 10th, 2023. The closed-door session will be followed by a public discussion.