The Menil Collection presents Conversation with Sean Mooney: Introducing Edmund Carpenter

eventdetail
Photo by Adelaide de Menil

Over the course of his life, Edmund Carpenter (1922–2011) was an archeologist, visual anthropologist, media theorist, filmmaker, teacher, and author. With his wife Adelaide de Menil, he was a collector of ethnographic art. His installation, Witnesses, is on permanent view in Menil’s Surrealist galleries. He curated the exhibition Upside Down in Paris’ Musée du quai Branly and later at The Menil Collection.

Sean Mooney, curator of the Edmund Carpenter Collection and of the exhibition MicroCosmos​, will discuss Carpenter’s life and achievements.

 

Over the course of his life, Edmund Carpenter (1922–2011) was an archeologist, visual anthropologist, media theorist, filmmaker, teacher, and author. With his wife Adelaide de Menil, he was a collector of ethnographic art. His installation, Witnesses, is on permanent view in Menil’s Surrealist galleries. He curated the exhibition Upside Down in Paris’ Musée du quai Branly and later at The Menil Collection.

Sean Mooney, curator of the Edmund Carpenter Collection and of the exhibition MicroCosmos​, will discuss Carpenter’s life and achievements.

Over the course of his life, Edmund Carpenter (1922–2011) was an archeologist, visual anthropologist, media theorist, filmmaker, teacher, and author. With his wife Adelaide de Menil, he was a collector of ethnographic art. His installation, Witnesses, is on permanent view in Menil’s Surrealist galleries. He curated the exhibition Upside Down in Paris’ Musée du quai Branly and later at The Menil Collection.

Sean Mooney, curator of the Edmund Carpenter Collection and of the exhibition MicroCosmos​, will discuss Carpenter’s life and achievements.

WHEN

WHERE

The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006
https://www.menil.org/events/939-conversation-with-sean-mooney-introducing-edmund-carpenter

TICKET INFO

Admission is free.
All events are subject to change due to weather or other concerns. Please check with the venue or organization to ensure an event is taking place as scheduled.