EventsThe New Social Environment#61

Richard Armstrong and Tom Hill with Helen Lee

Featuring Armstrong, Hill, and Lee

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Former Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Richard Armstrong, Hill Art Foundation co-founder Tom Hill join Rail contributor Helen Lee for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Brandon Brown.

In this Talk

Richard Armstrong

Richard Armstrong, Director of the Guggenheim

As Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation since 2008, Richard Armstrong leads the Guggenheim Foundation and its constellation of museums, in addition to serving on the Guggenheim Foundation Board of Trustees. Previously, Armstrong was the Henry J. Heinz II Director at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1996-2008). He has also held curatorial positions at Carnegie Museum of Art (1992-96), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1981- 1992), and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California (1975-79). A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Armstrong graduated from Lake Forest College in Illinois with a BA in art history, having studied at the Université de Dijon and the Université de Paris, Sorbonne.

Tom Hill

Photo: Joshua B. Geyer

In 2019, Tom and Janine Hill opened the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea, New York City. The Foundation, which is always free and open to the public, presents exhibitions that connect artistic movements across generations and genres. The Foundation prioritizes education and access, with a special focus on programming for high-school students. Collaborations with artists including Christopher Wool, Charles Ray, Kevin Beasley, Spencer Finch, and Sarah Crowner have made the Foundation an important cultural touchstone in the Chelsea neighborhood.

Mr. Hill is on the boards of many institutions, including but not limited to, Chair of the Board of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Board of Directors at Friends of the High Line, and Chairman Emeritus of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

Helen Lee

Collector, academic, art advisor, art book editor, and auction house specialist Helen Lee has had many roles in the art world. She has worked at Christie’s, Harry N. Abrams Publishing, the Robert Miller Gallery, and for James Wolfensohn, among others. Her passion for the arts derives from her belief that art and culture provide vital means of communication across cultural and political divides. Helen is an advisor to the Milken Institute for its art and culture programming. She is the Chairman of the American Foundation for the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she completed her post-graduate studies after earning a BA from Harvard. Helen is a board member of the Rail.

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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

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 🌈✨