Artists Discussion: This Place
February 11, 2016
7:00 p.m.
The opening of the exhibition This Place kicks off with a discussion moderated by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with photographers Rosalind Fox Solomon and Thomas Struth and project initiator Frédéric Brenner. The photographers discuss their personal journeys documenting Israel and the West Bank and detail their artistic processes and what they learned from their experiences.
These Perspectives: Frédéric Brenner and Nicole Krauss
February 18, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Best-selling novelist Nicole Krauss joins photographer Frédéric Brenner to talk about why he launched This Place, a monumental art project exploring Israel and the West Bank. Together they discuss identity, otherness, longing, belonging, and exclusion, and the ways in which fiction and photography approach storytelling, character, and metaphor. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition This Place.