Join us for a special conversation with artist Jimmy Wright and Jane Panetta, Aaron I. Fleischman Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Wright and Panetta will discuss the artist’s work in addition to Wright’s experience living in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Jimmy Wright’s important work Flowers for Ken: Sunflower Stem (1988-91) was acquired by Speed Contemporary for the museum’s permanent collection in 2022. Recently conserved, the work is now a centerpiece in the museum’s current collection installation Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond, where it is currently in conversation with a major work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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