Opalka Gallery and the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Russell Sage College welcome Museum of Modern Art curator Esther Adler for a lecture on contemporary art museum display practices on Tuesday, February 8 at 4:00pm.

Esther Adler is a curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art. Her exhibition “Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw” is on view at MoMA through March 19, 2022, and will travel to The Menil Collection in April, having opened at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 12, 2021. Most recently, she organized “Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl’s Window” (with Christophe Cherix, 2019), “Charles White: A Retrospective” (with Sarah Kelly Oehler, 2018) and “Charles White — Leonardo da Vinci,” curated by David Hammons (2017). Past projects include “Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself”(2013), “American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe” (2013), and “Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA,” 1929–1983 (2011). Her talk at Opalka is entitled “A Dynamic Collection: Current Display Practices at The Museum of Modern Art.” Prior to joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2005, Adler worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as a graduate fellow, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Adler holds a BA from Brandeis University, and an MA from the University of Maryland.

This lecture is free and open to the public but visitors must wear a mask and present a Sage ID or proof of vaccination in the form of a CDC card or photo of one or NY Excelsior Pass. A Q&A on the topic of careers in the museum field will follow Adler’s talk.