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Two speakers are coming to campus this week to discuss a unique art curation experience and the literature of modern migration.

Today, Tom Smart, the director of museum programs at the Frick Art and Historical Center, will discuss the unique circumstances of his work as part of the Aesthetics Out of Bounds Lecture Series.

Director of collections and exhibitions, Smart creates new methods of understanding historical collections by meshing them with modern art. He has worked with contemporary artists to rethink the Frick collection through contemporary performance, installation, and object placement.

Smart has recently been appointed director of the McMichael Canadian Collection, one of Canada’s collections of work by the early 20th-century...