Curator Denise Murrell speaking at the American Library of Paris on July 9th

Visiting scholar at the Institute, Dr. Denise Murrell, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, Curator of the Wallach’s exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today (October 2018-February 2019) and co-curator of an expanded version of the exhibition, Le modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse, at the Musée d’Orsay, (going on through July 21, 2019) will be in conversation with Franco-Haitian photographer, Henry Roy, author of Regards Noirs. The talk will be moderated by Paris-based African American author Jake Lamar.