Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas: Keynote Lecture

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27 August - Keynote Lecture

Chau Chak Wing Museum, Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium

Dr Lynne Cooke's keynote lecture on Textiles and Architecture: A proximate relation

Lynne Cooke has held senior curatorial positions at institutions in New York, Madrid, and Washington DC for more than three decades. Recently her work has focused on the role of textiles in modernist and contemporary art. From 2023-2025 her seminal exhibition, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction toured to four North America venues. Cooke lives and works in New York.

Migrating Modernism, Migrating Ideas: Transnational Exchanges in Architecture and Art is a symposium bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore how the movement of people, objects, and expertise reshapes art, the built environment, and their cultural meanings.

This symposium is convened by Dr Paolo Stracchi and Dr Ann Stephen, University of Sydney. It is co-presented by the Chau Chak Wing Museum (CCWM), the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP), the United States Studies Centre (USSC), the Power Institute of Art & Visual Culture, and the State Library of NSW. The Museum is grateful for the support of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and The University of Sydney USA Foundation.

Header image: Installation view of “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler”, with photograph by Katherine Lu, and Rose Seidler House model by Matteo Marzi (intern at Harry Seidler & Associates), 2012…