Experience the Harvard Art Museums’ historical collections through fresh eyes in a one-of-a kind installation by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet. Experience the Harvard Art Museums’ historical collections through fresh eyes in a one-of-a kind installation by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet. Join curator Lynette Roth as she talks with Arlene Shechet about her artistic process, her past collaborations with German porcelain manufactory workers, and how she recontextualizes these remarkable objects to speak to the larger history of labor, class, and global trade. The installation "Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums" is on view through July 6, 2025. Shechet presents her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese porcelain objects from the Harvard Art Museums. To explore more about this installation, visit https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/ArleneShechet Speakers: + Arlene Shechet, Artist; + Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums. + Introduction by Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Introductions & Land Acknowledgment by Martha Tedeschi 0:05:52 - Conversation with Arlene Shechet and Lynette Roth 0:06:48 - Collaboration In The Making 0:11:20 - Engaging Porcelain & Meissen Porcelain Factory 0:21:14 - Molding the Mold: Working with Porcelain 0:35:39 - Breaking The Mold: Foregrounding 'Decorative Arts' 0:43:02 - Disrupt The View: Reframing Museum Porcelain Collections 0:56:29 - "Gangster Girl on the Block," 2012. (https://hvrd.art/o/372978) 01:00:47 - "Sexy Baby Eyes," 2012. (https://hvrd.art/o/373454) 01:01:27 - The Language of Porcelain 01:03:42 - "Grammar," 2020. (https://hvrd.art/o/372971) 01:09:54 - Q&A with audience Explore more Arlene Shechet's works on view: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/65650?person=65650 --- All images and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer: Any use of copyrighted content on this channel constitutes “fair use” pursuant to 17 U.S. Code § 107 as it is utilized for the purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. All works by Arlene Shechet: © Arlene Shechet. Thumbnail Image: "Polymnia," c. 1744–45, a porcelain figurine from the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum beside Arlene Shechet’s Sexy Baby Eyes, 2012; © Arlene Shechet. Image courtesy of the artist. Video: Recording October 7, 2022. Videographer: Casey Preston. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu. #ArleneShechet #disrupttheview #harvardartmuseums