Friday Evening Lecture: The Making of “Turner’s Modern World”
David Blayney Brown, former senior curator, Tate Britain, London
Amy Concannon, senior curator, Tate Britain, London
Moderator: George T.M. Shackelford, deputy director
Tate Britain houses the largest repository of Turner’s artwork, an inexhaustible mine for exploring the pioneering spirit of one of Britain’s most beloved artists. In this conversation, Tate curators speak about the exhibition “Turner’s Modern World” and how the artist captured the industrial and societal revolutions of his time.