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Keith Haring's Life & Legacy: A Conversation

NOV 12, 6 - 7 PM | Lecture | Great Hall | $20 ($15/members)
Great Hall

Glenn Adamson

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Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A. With Jen Padgett, he was the co-curator of Crafting America at Crystal Bridges in 2020 and has also curated or co-curated exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the V&A, the Museum of Arts and Design, Chatsworth House, and Vitra Design Museum, among other venues.

Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, accompanying the exhibition of that title at the V&A, co-curated with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA (2020), and Craft: An American History (2021). His most recent book, A Century of Tomorrows, was published by Bloomsbury in December 2024.

Tim Hursley

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Tim Hursley's career has centered around photographing contemporary architecture, including Crystal Bridges' architect Moshe Safdie's work since the mid-eighties. He spent five years documenting Andy Warhol's last factory, where he met Keith Haring. During that time, Hursley was commissioned to shoot the Paladium club opening in New York where he captured Haring's iconic mural over the dance floor.

Brad Gooch

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Brad Gooch’s biography Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring was the winner of a 2025 Lambda Literary Award; a New York Times Book Critics’ Favorite Book of the Year; a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year; and is being developed as a TV series written and directed by Andrew Haigh. His other books include Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara; and, most recently the memoir Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family. He is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, and lives in New York City.

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