Peter Kenny, the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, speaks about the late eighteenth-century wash basin stand on loan from the Met and included in Pointing Machines, Triple Canopy’s contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Kenny describes both the manufacture and use of this item of early American furniture, and its place within a larger craft economy in which imitation and reproduction played a significant role in the development of an American aesthetic.
Participants
- Peter Kenny is Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A member of the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, Peter Kenny writes and lectures extensively on American colonial and federal period furniture and craftsmen.