Summer Salon
A Conversation with
Helen Molesworth and Lisa Yuskavage
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Please join us at 5:00 PM for a reception on our courtyard, followed by the Summer Salon event starting at 6:00 PM in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The event will include a conversation between our two guests and a moderated Q&A with the audience.
Photo: Jason Schmidt
An exhibition of work by the artist was presented at David Zwirner New York in 2026. The exhibition features new and recent paintings and works on paper, and introduces a body of collages—a new medium for the artist. This is Yuskavage’s tenth solo exhibition with David Zwirner and marks twenty years since her first show with the gallery in 2006.
Photo: Catherine Opie
Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster, and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. In 2023, Phaidon published Open Questions, Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include Death of an Artist, a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, and the inaugural season of Recording Artists with The Getty. She is also the host of DIALOGUES, a podcast that features interviews with artists, writers, fashion designers, and filmmakers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery. Her major museum exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized one-person exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalog essays, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize. Molesworth is a trustee of the Fine Arts Work Center.
About Summer Salons
The Summer Salons events are designed to encourage a lively exchange of ideas by bringing together prominent figures from the arts and culture community to the Work Center. Scheduled over four Friday evenings from mid-June to late August, this series provides a unique opportunity for audiences in Provincetown and beyond to connect directly with some of today’s most influential creative minds. Set against the historic backdrop of the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, the Summer Salons invite these notable leaders to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge during an evening of conversation, learning, and community engagement. The result is a rare form of creative communion.
Proceeds from these paid events ensure that the Fine Arts Work Center is able to provide free arts and culture events for the Outer Cape Cod community year round.
