Peter Reed, member of FAPE Professional Fine Arts Committee, guest curator of AMERICA ABROAD: Art, Architecture, and Diplomacy, Works from the FAPE Collection, currently on view at the Onera Foundation, in New Canaan, CT.

at the New Canaan Library

Jim and Dede Bartlett Auditorium

American art communicates stories and visions of our country to millions abroad who, in it, see who we are as a nation. Work by Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein, Carmen Herrera and Carrie Mae Weems, Jasper Johns and Julie Mehretu (and many more) expresses our irrepressible vitality and variety to the world. Join us for a conversation with curator Peter Reed, formerly Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at The Museum of Modern Art and guest curator of the exhibition AMERICA ABROAD: Art, Architecture, and Diplomacy: Works from the Fine Arts for Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Collection at the Onera Foundation in New Canaan.

Our conversation, together with co-curator Laurence Lafforgue, Onera Foundation Executive Director, and Miki Porta, Adult Programs Manager at New Canaan Library, will explore the curatorial process, the relationship between art, architecture, and cultural diplomacy, and some of the remarkable work on exhibition for the first time on American soil.

Peter Reed was a member of MoMA's curatorial staff since 1992, and Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design from 2005 – 2020. He organized numerous exhibitions at MoMA and contributed to publications on architects including Alvar Aalto, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. Reed holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the Professional Fine Arts Committee of FAPE.

This program is presented by New Canaan Library in partnership with Onera Foundation.