APAA Member Virginia Shore Wages Peace with Art

Virginia Shore, the former deputy director and chief curator of Art in Embassies and now an independent advisor, has worked with some 6,000 artists and hung more than 10,000 works in 200 embassies and consulates, and she was instrumental in bringing Rache Whiteread's work to the US Embassy in London.   Cultured recently interviewed Virginia to learn more about her work with By the People, and Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, working on outreach for Carne y Arena, a virtual reality installation created by Alejandro Iñárritu, the director of The Revenant and Birdman, that adopts the perspective of immigrants trying to cross the Mexican border.