Guest Curator Talk: Kenneth J. Myers

Reinstalling the Detroit Institutes of Arts Great Collection of American Art

The Detroit Institute of Arts has one of the best collections of historic American art in the world, with a particular strength in the period 1660 to 1915. Kenneth Myers, curator of American Art and longtime head of the department of the American Art will discuss the ideas informing the recent reinstallation of the collection which is organized chrono-thematically to highlight ways in which art objects reinforced or challenged culturally dominant assumptions about gender, race, and Americanness.