EventsThe New Social Environment#1367

Marcel Duchamp

Featuring Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo, Ann Temkin, and Thierry De Duve

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Curators Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo, and Ann Temkin join art historian Thierry De Duve for a conversation on Zoom. 

Michelle Kuo

A photo of Michelle Kuo on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Michelle Kuo. © 2023 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Peter Ross

Michelle Kuo is Chief Curator at Large and Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art. She is the curator of Jack Whitten: The Messenger; and leads interdisciplinary work on temporary and collection exhibitions, digital initiatives, research and scholarship, and acquisitions for the Museum’s collection, and directs MoMA’s global publications program. Kuo joined MoMA in 2018 as the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include Otobong Nkanga: Cadence (2024–25), Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers (2024), among others. She has written and lectured widely; her publications include Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (2024), she serves on the advisory board of the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, and the journal October.

    Thierry de Duve

    A photo of Thierry de Duve on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
    Historian and philosopher of art Thierry de Duve is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His English publications include Sewn In the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012), and Aesthetics at Large, Volume One: Art, Ethics, Politics (2018)., among others Two volumes of his Essais datés, published in French by Mamco in Geneva, have appeared in the last few years: Vol. I, Duchampiana, in 2014, and Vol. II, Adresses, in 2016. His next book, titled Duchamp’s Telegram, From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General, is forthcoming from Reaktion Books, London, at the beginning of 2023. He is presently working on Volume Two of Aesthetics at Large.

    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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