Kelly Taxter, Amy Sillman, and Ksenia Soboleva in Conversation

While Betty Parsons is celebrated as one of the most influential gallerists of the twentieth century, the exhibition An Expanded World shows us the other side of her life, as a committed abstract painter and sculptor. Kelly Taxter and Amy Sillman, exhibition curators, and Ksenia M. Soboleva, scholar and writer, gather to discuss Parsons’s interlaced private and public practices. Support for 2026 public programs at the Hessel Museum of Art is provided by the Thompson Family Foundation and the Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation. This project is made possible, in part, through funding from the County of Dutchess and Destination Dutchess (formerly Dutchess Tourism) and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.