Heidi Zuckerman: "Why Art Matters" in Conversation with Glenn Fuhrman

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present the launch and signing of Orange County Museum of Art CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman’s publication Why Art Matters: The Bearable Lightness of Being. Zuckerman will be in conversation with FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman, as they discuss how a life with art offers a way to think through and with the essential and meaningful ideas of the human condition.

Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.

Heidi Zuckerman is a globally recognized leader in contemporary art. As CEO and Director of Orange County Museum of Art, she has envi­sioned a twenty-first-century museum and built a new, ground-up project with Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne. Zuckerman is also the former fourteen-year CEO and Director of the Aspen Art Museum, which she reimagined as a world-class institution, raised more than $130 million, and built a highly acclaimed building with Shigeru Ban, the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner. From 1999–2005, she was the Phyllis Wattis Matrix curator and the Chair of the Curatorial Department at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Previously, she was a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York.

Zuckerman has curated more than two hundred exhibitions during her extensive career, including early, important, and often first museum shows of artists who have now come to define our time. She also hosts the podcast About Art and is the author of numerous books, including the Conversations with Artists book series. Zuckerman additionally served as Chair of the YPO Art Network. She earned a BA in European History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Art History from Hunter College at CUNY, and a Harvard Business School Executive Education Women on Boards Certification in 2018.

Glenn Fuhrman is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners (New York, NY) and is the Founder and CEO of Virtru Investment Partners (New York, NY). Prior to launching Tru Arrow and Virtru, he co-Founded MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and from 1998 thru 2019 served as its co-Managing Partner. Glenn is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art, and The TATE Americas Foundation; he is a Board member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y in NY and the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Glenn is also on the board of Gagosian Gallery. In 2008, he founded The FLAG Art Foundation, which celebrated its 15th anniversary last year.

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