The Sensational Museum: Hannah Thompson in conversation with Georgina Kleege on Arts Access

Description

NYU’s Grey Art Museum and Center for Disability Studies invite you to a presentation by Prof. Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway, University of London) about her project The Sensational Museum, which, as she writes, means “using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone.” Prof. Thompson will be in conversation with Prof. Emeritus Georgina Kleege (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Kevin Gotkin (Assistant Director, Center for Disability Studies, NYU).

This special event is held in memory of Joseph Lovett, a devoted friend of the Grey Art Museum and the Center for Disability Studies. Lovett used film and television to foster awareness of critical issues. He produced the first US broadcast news segments on the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, and later created feature documentaries on subjects such as gay life in the US, blindness, and cancer. With his husband James Cottrell, Lovett gifted some 200 artworks to the Grey Art Museum, further strengthening NYU’s holdings from the downtown NYC arts scene around SoHo and the Lower East Side.

Period	12 Mar 2026
Held at	NYU Center for Disability Studies, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International