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The transformative role of art during the pandemic

Museums are vessels of memory, knowledge, inspiration and dreams. Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, makes the case for cultural institutions to take a leading role in supporting the world's recovery from COVID-19 -- and shows how, in times of turmoil and disruption, the arts help us come together, heal and rebuild a better society. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED arts and design curator Chee Pearlman, was recorded June 17, 2020.)

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Museums are vessels of memory, knowledge, inspiration and dreams. Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, makes the case for cultural institutions to take a leading role in supporting the world's recovery from COVID-19 -- and shows how, in times of turmoil and disruption, the arts help us come together, heal and rebuild a better society. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED arts and design curator Chee Pearlman, was recorded June 17, 2020.)

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Learn more about the Brooklyn Museum.

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Director, Brooklyn Museum

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For more than thirty years, Anne Pasternak has devoted her career to engaging broad audiences with the limitless power of art to move, motivate and inspire.

TED design curator

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Chee Pearlman creates conversations among designers -- think of her as as the host of a worldwide, perpetual salon.