The Norwegian Association of Curators was has been given funding by the Arts Council Norway to explore the role of the curator through a series of talks/lectures. The series aims to explore different typologies of curatorial practice and to link the visit to relevant art events in place the talk takes place in Norway.

The lecture series has been compiled by Milena Hoegsberg, Natalie Hope O’Donnell and Leif Magne Tangen.

Thomas J. Lax’s lecture is the fourth lecture in a series on different typologies of curatorial practice. Thomas J. Lax’s talk Good Enough to Get it will address the question of the vernacular in contemporary art.

Thomas J. Lax was appointed Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014. For the previous seven years, he worked at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where he organized over a dozen exhibitions as well as numerous screenings, performances and public programs. Thomas is a faculty member at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts; on the Advisory Committee Vera List Center for Arts and Politics; on the Arts Advisory Committee of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; a member of the Catalyst Circle at The Laundromat Project; and on the Advisory Board of Recess. Thomas received his BA from Brown University in Africana Studies and Art/Semiotics, and an MA in Modern Art from Columbia University. In 2015, Thomas was awarded the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.