EventsThe New Social Environment#1339
Isa Genzken: VACATION
Featuring Ebony L. Haynes and Laura Hoptman
Thursday, April 2, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Curator Ebony L. Haynes joins curator Laura Hoptman for a conversation on Zoom.
Ebony L. Haynes

Ebony L. Haynes is a New York-based curator and is the Global Head of Curatorial Projects at David Zwirner. She previously lead the gallery’s 52 Walker space in Tribeca. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space (New York), Topical Cream, and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs Black Art Sessions, an online “school” that offers free professional practice classes to black students worldwide.
Laura Hoptman

Laura Hoptman is the Executive Director of The Drawing Center, a post she has held since 2018. She came to The Drawing Center after eight years as a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, an institution where she also began her career in the 1990s as a curator with a specialty in drawing.
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 🌈✨