The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series | Dan Kershaw: Ephemeral Exhibitions and Impermanent Permanent Museum Design

Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Daniel Kershaw

This event will be conducted in-person in Room 315F and through Zoom. 

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.

Exhibition Design Manager Daniel Kershaw came to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1989. His designs include galleries for European Paintings, American Paintings and Sculpture, Oceania, Early Medieval, Byzantium, and Native America, and exhibitions of Renaissance Portraits, C.R.Mackintosh, Santiago Calatrava, Rauschenberg Combines, Art of the Samurai, Seurat, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, and Van Gogh's Cypresses. He has consulted for Columbia University, Yale University Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, Barnes Foundation, The Jewish Museum, Dahesh Museum, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Sotheby’s, The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, The DeMenil Collection, Salvador Dali Museum, Swiss Institute, Getty Conservation Institute, Philipse Manor Hall, Rolex, Ambassade de France/Service Culturels, Consulate of the Russian Federation, National Academy of Design, The St. Petersburg International Center for Preservation, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Society.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.