AFTERWORDS
Our annual public program series exploring what happens after an encounter with a work of art, through conversations, reflections, and interdisciplinary inquiry.
Annual
In-person events held in the Zilkha Reading Room and other campus venues. Select events also available online.
Overview
Organized each year around a guiding keyword, AFTERWORDS invites artists, curators, scholars, and students to reflect on the resonances of performance, artmaking, and curatorial practice. Through live and virtual conversations, the series reveals how the arts do not simply reflect the world—they shape it.
AFTERWORDS offers a behind-the-scenes look at the concepts, collaborations, and questions that shape the Center for the Arts' annual programming. The events are designed to pull together on- and off-campus audiences for thoughtful, often interdisciplinary conversations about the role of art in personal and public life.
2025–2026 Key Focus: entanglement
To be entangled is to be attuned to the intimate, affective, and often unconscious threads that connect us to each other and the world around us. It implies responsibility, reciprocity, and the recognition that no one exists in isolation.
AFTERWORDS: entanglement brings together artists and curators whose work explores connection, interdependence, and the fragile systems—emotional, social, historical—that hold us together.
This year’s program is co-curated by:
Joshua Lubin-Levy ’06, Director, Center for the Arts
Noémie Solomon, Director, Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance
Season Highlight: Jonathan González and Darius Jones
Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance
Upcoming Events
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