The Power of Natural History: Historian Lukas Rieppel in Conversation with Recapturing the Scenic Wilds Artists, November 15

Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center located in the northwestern corner of the Bronx, is delighted to welcome cultural historian Lukas Rieppel, Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, for an afternoon of broad-ranging, provocative conversation. Dr. Rieppel opens the afternoon with a presentation about his work on the development of the natural history museum. Following his presentation, he is joined by Richard Barnes, Hugh Hayden and Lori Nix, three of the artists exhibiting work in Wave Hill’s fall exhibition, Recapturing the Scenic Wilds, for a panel discussion that