Lanka Tattersall on Christine Sun Kim’s The Sound of Temperature Rising

In the online edition of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program, a member of our staff shares personal impressions of an artwork in the galleries. Here, Lanka Tattersall, a curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, talks about the surprising layers of technique and meaning—personal, political, and environmental—in Christine Sun Kim’s 2019 drawing The Sound of Temperature Rising.

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