This event is in the past.It took place on June 11, 2026 at Museum of the City of New York.
Fine Arts Talk
Fine Arts TalkEast Harlem, New York
🎨View the Alice Mural exhibition before the panel starts
🎤Whitney curator Barbara Haskell on the panel
♿Wheelchair lift available, call ahead with questions
Go behind the scenes of a decades-long rescue mission. This panel reveals how conservators saved Abram Champanier's Alice Mural, a New Deal fantasy that once brightened a children's hospital ward, and why restoring public art matters more than ever.
New Deal history
art restoration
curator panel
WPA murals
Fine Arts TalkFine Arts TalkEast Harlem, New York
🎨View the Alice Mural exhibition before the panel starts
🎤Whitney curator Barbara Haskell on the panel
♿Wheelchair lift available, call ahead with questions
Go behind the scenes of a decades-long rescue mission. This panel reveals how conservators saved Abram Champanier's Alice Mural, a New Deal fantasy that once brightened a children's hospital ward, and why restoring public art matters more than ever.
New Deal history
art restoration
curator panel
WPA murals