Socrates Sculpture Park Host Virtual Conversation: After the Monument, 10/22

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Eternal Flame, 2020, Image by Sara Morgan. [Image description: A monument with an obelisk on top, the text on the obelisk says “ETERNAL and FLAME,” At the base four people are looking at the piece and it is surrounded by picnic tables in a park setting.]

After the Monument

Thursday, October 22, from 6:30pm EST

Join Socrates Sculpture Park for a conversation with artist Paul Ramirez Jonas; Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator at Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art; Kendal Henry, Director of Percent for Art, at NYC Department of Cultural Affairs facilitated by Jess Wilcox, Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Socrates.

The talk will focus on Ramirez Jonas’s public art works ‘Eternal Flame’–currently on view in the ‘MONUMENTS NOW’ exhibition at Socrates–and ‘Public Trust’–currently on view at moCa Cleveland. In anticipation of the upcoming election, the speakers will address public space as contested ground, civic participation, and the role of monuments in the contemporary culture war.

This event is produced in partnership with Galeria Nara Roesler.

You can register for this event here.

You can find out more about Socrates Sculpture Park here.