Gallery Conversation: Ben Shahn and the Public Use of Art Wednesday
In conjunction with the exhibition Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times
Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, will place Shahn’s photographs documenting the Artists’ Union protests and New York prisons in the context of his involvement in the radical artists’ movement and contemporary debates about the social use of public art.