EventsThe New Social Environment#1303

Drop, Cloth

Featuring Glenn Adamson, Severin Delfs, and Jessica Holmes

Thursday, January 8, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs join Rail ArtSeen Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation on Zoom. 

Glenn Adamson

A photo of Glenn Adamson on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Image credit: John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. The author most recently of A Century of Tomorrows (Bloomsbury, 2024), he is currently Curator at Large for the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Artistic Director for Design Doha - a biennial festival in Qatar - and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation. Current curatorial projects include Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things for the Vitra Design Museum and Keith Haring in 3D for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. 

Severin Delfs

A photo of Severin Delfs on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Severin Delfs is Director of Development at Hollis Taggart and a legacy steward of the Audrey Flack Foundation and Estate. He has collaborated curatorially with the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY) and LongHouse Reserve Sculpture Garden and Museum-Reserve Landscape (East Hampton, NY). Other projects include the exhibitions Codes & ColorsTeruko Yokoi: Noh Theatre, and John Graham Comes Home in collaboration with the Brooklyn Home Company. He holds a BA from the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts & Technology in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the curatorial collective Below Grand. 

Jessica Holmes

A photo of Jessica Holmes on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Jessica Holmes, a co-editor of the Artseen section for the Brooklyn Rail, has also contributed to its pages for over a decade. Her writing has also featured in BOMB, Hyperallergic, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair Spain, among many others, and has been included in over two dozen exhibition catalogues and monographs. Previously, Jessica worked for the Calder Foundation for nearly two decades, including six years as its Deputy Director.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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