Museums Forward: Dr. Dorothy Kosinski

Join us for the inaugural Museums Forward lecture The Moral Imagination of Today’s Museum by Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, distinguished art historian and Director Emerita of The Phillips Collection.

Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko once stated: “One makes democracy. We must develop the capacity for communication and for fearless listening.”

The work of the museum practitioner is to champion the art object and to elevate the artist’s voice. Let’s look to the humanist and the moral philosopher to align our practice around a set of ethical values: curiosity, collaboration, empathy, generosity, and love. How do we design our work and construct our institutions around these values? Perhaps the most inspiring models are found not within societal and political organizational structures but rather within the messy, complex, resilient, and efficient of systems of nature.

Key cultural practitioners include artists, curators, and scientists, referenced: Carolina Caycedo, Kader Attia, Jenny Holzer, Nicholas Galanin, Fred Wilson, Denise Murrell, Edward O. Wilson, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.