Svetlana Alpers & Joshua Chuang discuss Walker Evans | New York Studio School

Spring 2021 Evening Lecture Series: “Walker Evans: Starting From Scratch: Svetlana Alpers in Conversation with Joshua Chuang,” recorded on February 17, 2021. Svetlana Alpers is professor emerita of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar in art history at New York University. Her many books include the new Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch, as well as The Art of Describing, The Vexations of Art, and Roof Life. She lives in New York City and France. Joshua Chuang is head of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs and Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library. Prior to this, he served as chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and the inaugural Richard Benson Associate Curator of Photography and Digital Media at the Yale University Art Gallery. Please consider making a gift to the Evening Lecture Series. Your donation will support the Series ongoing twice-weekly discussions of contemporary art and art history, which are free and open to all. https://nyss.org/support/donate/ The NYSS Evening Lecture Series is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and also by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This online archive is funded in part by the Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Foundation, and additional support is generously provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation and many individual contributors. NYSS is deeply grateful for the support of its programs. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.