One Curator, One Work is a series of talks highlighting individual works of art in the Gallery’s collection or in special exhibitions. In each talk, a Gallery staff member discusses one object on view, introducing new perspectives on its meaning and relevance. Join curators as they discuss objects in the exhibitions Everything Is Dada, Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in Sixteenth-Century France, and Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles.



Frauke V. Josenhans, the Horace W. Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, investigates how Drinnen und Draussen (Inside and Outside; 1926) by George Grosz exemplifies the way in which Berlin Dadaists were fighting on the streets as well as on the canvas, manifesting their harsh critique of the political corruption and social decadence of post–World War I Germany.



Gabriella Svenningsen, Museum Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, probes Kurt Schwitters’s Merzmappe (Merz Portfolio; 1923), an example of how Dada artists integrated everyday and found objects into their works and explored new techniques.



Exhibition curators Cordélia de Brosses, CC ’16, Hélène Cesbron Lavau, MC ’16, and Stephanie Wisowaty, TD ’16, offer a close-looking session examining the techniques and provenance of two highlights in Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in Sixteenth-Century France: Bernard Palissy’s “Rustiques” and the Saint-Porchaire Workshop’s salt cellar (mid-16th century).



Dicey Taylor, Ph.D. 1983, co-curator of the exhibition Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles, discusses a large Andean feathered panel.