Experience outside of museums can also enhance a career trajectory. Lauren Rosati, 39, an associate curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Met, began organizing experimental-music events when she was still in graduate school. Her goal now is to get museum visitors not only to see art but also to hear it.
The latest example is Jennie C. Jones’s “Ensemble,” the museum’s new roof garden commission, which opened on April 15 and features three powder-coated aluminum-and-concrete sculptures that are inspired by stringed instruments.
One “is modeled on an Aeolian harp, which is an instrument that is designed to be played by the wind, and we have heard it singing upstairs,” Rosati said. Recently, she arranged for two musicians to be filmed while playing music on the sculptures’ strings; the video is on the museum’s website.
Rosati, who has also helped reintroduce film programming to the museum, said she wanted to expand “the visibility and scope and potential for media and performance at the Met, including sound and sound technology.”
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