Presences, Ghosts and Monuments a lecture by Marie Warsh at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Presences, Ghosts and Monuments – Working with Rosemary Mayer’s Estate, a lecture by Marie Warsh, art historian and co-director of the Estate of Rosemary Mayer, at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

BIOGRAPHY

Marie Warsh is a historian, writer, and the co-director of the Estate of Rosemary Mayer. She helped to organize numerous exhibitions of Mayer’s work and has edited several books, including Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer (2016 & 2020), Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977-1982 with Max Warsh (2018), and The Letters of Bernadette and Rosemary Mayer with Gillian Sneed (2022). From 2005-2022, she worked for the Central Park Conservancy where she was involved in various aspects of the history, preservation, and interpretation of Central Park. She has also written widely on the history of parks, playgrounds, and other landscapes and is the author of Central Park’s Adventure-Style Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy (2019). She has an MA in Landscape Studies from the Bard Graduate Center and a BA in Art History from Smith College.