In Conversation: Danni Shen with Madison Brown and Eugene Wang

Join us for a conversation on the exhibition Cosmos Falling, led by curator Danni Shen, with Madison Brown, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, and Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art. 

6:00pm—7:30pm, Theater, Lower Level 

MADISON BROWN is a writer and curator who specializes in the history and theory of vernacular media cultures. Situated at the intersection of photo archives and everyday life, her work explores the politics of visual culture through questions of memory, absence, and power differentials. Madison received her Ph.D. in Screen Cultures from Northwestern University and is currently the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. 

EUGENE WANG is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University, where he holds positions in History of Art and Architecture, Archaeology, Study of Religion, TDM (Theater, Dance, and Medium), and Inner Asia and Altaic Studies. A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004). His research covers Asian Buddhist art as well as Chinese art history. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), on art of worldmaking, received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Achievement Award from Japan. He was twice recognized in recent years by the FAS Dean’s Fund for Promising Scholarship. He is the founding director of Harvard CAMLab dedicated to turning cultural-historical knowledge into medial-sensorial experience. The exhibition he curated in 2024, Mawangdui: Art of Life, at the Hunan Museum, won the 2025  iF Design Award from Germany.