Jay Levenson has served as the Director of the International Program since 1996, managing a variety of initiatives, including Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), the Museum’s global research project. Prior to that he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He has served as guest curator for major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and awarded a PhD in art history by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, he has held positions both as a curator and museum administrator, and as an attorney.
Since the 1950s, there has been an active production of experimental film, animation, and video art in Asia. Yet, much of this work has not been consistently conserved or shared with the public due to the lack of accessible archives or organized collections dedicated to its preservation and dissemination. The conference “The Archival Impulse: Collecting…
