FPS LIVING ROOM LECTURES

Wolf Burchard and Helen Jacobsen discuss the acclaimed exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Wallace Collection. We hope you can join us!

Living Room Lecture: Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts – Wolf Burchard and Helen Jacobsen

Time: Sunday, 20 March 2022, 18:00PM London, UK (GMT)

Members will receive an email invitation with instructions on how to join the online lecture. If you want to join, please contact us for more details on FPSenquiries@gmail.com.

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

Wolf Burchard, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helen Jacobsen, Executive Director of the Attingham Trust

We are delighted to welcome Wolf Burchard and Helen Jacobsen to our next Living Room Lecture.  Wolf has curated the exhibition Walt Disney, the Animation of French Decorative Arts, which has just closed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a hugely successful run. It is now moving to the Wallace Collection, where Helen joins him as co-curator, and the two of them will be discussing the genesis of the exhibition and exploring its themes. Drawing on unpublished Disney material and the decorative arts collections from both museums, they will be highlighting the surprising and enchanting connections between them.

Image: Pair of tower vases with covers, Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, design attributed to Étienne-Maurice Falconet, c. 1762. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection (27.31–2). Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California