Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual Studies at Harvard University, will be speaking as part of a symposium at deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum: "Art & Journalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics." Harvard Alumni Markeda Best will also be speaking at this event.
In conjunction with deCordova’s exhibition, Truthiness and the News, this symposium brings together three leading figures in the fields of journalism, art history, and museums to reflect on the ethical implications of looking at images and reading the news critically in an era in which the concept of truth seems to hold ever less weight.
Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a professor at Harvard University in the departments of history of art and architecture and visual and environmental studies. Lambert-Beatty’s scholarship focuses on art since the 1960s. In addition to her award-winning book, Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (2008), Lambert-Beatty contributes regularly to Artforum, Art Journal, and October, of which she is an editor.
Makeda Best is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums. A specialist in war and documentary photography, Best co-edited Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art (2015). Best previously served as assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and assistant professor of art history at the California College of the Arts and the University of Vermont.