Moveable Feast Edmund de Waal & Paul Holdengräber in Conversation A Map of Remembering: Place, Family, Story

Event details Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: The JACCC - TWCCC/Japanese Garden 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Cost: 10 Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: Other Location Department: Fisher Museum of Art, Pacific Asia Museum Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event Please note: This program will take place at the JACCC A broken porcelain plate threaded with gold is at the heart of this wide-ranging conversation between Edmund de Waal and Paul Holdengräber. This is the Japanese art of kintsugi. For de Waal, kintsugi is not repair but a way of recording loss. This is a conversation about return, and how practices of making and writing offer a means of navigating landscapes of memory, memorial, and exile. It will return to de Waal's projects in Paris at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, in the Venice Ghetto, and in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum — and, above all, to Japan, and its influence on de Waal’s ways of looking. Moveable Feast brings together arts partners and creative voices in conversation to shape collective experiences and deepen our understanding of the world and ourselves through the arts and humanities. This Moveable Feast program is presented in partnership with USC Museums and JACCC as well as the support of Selma Holo and Mei-Lee Ney. After the conversation, join us for light refreshments in the Japanese garden. Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer whose work explores themes of loss, exile, diaspora, memory, and materiality. Known for his innovative ceramics and installations, he has created artworks for museums and public spaces worldwide. He is also the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), The White Road (2015), and Letters to Camondo (2021). De Waal has received numerous honors for his contributions to art and literature, including the Isamu Noguchi Award and France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives and works in London. Paul Holdengräber is an acclaimed interviewer, cultural interlocutor, and curator of public curiosity. He was the Founding Executive Director of Onassis Los Angeles. Prior he was Founder and Director of The New York Public Library’s LIVE from the NYPL cultural series where he interviewed and hosted over 600 events, including interviews with Patti Smith, Wes Anderson, Mike Tyson, Werner Herzog, Sally Mann, Edmund de Waal, and many more. Before his tenure at the library, he was the Founder and Director of The Institute for Art & Cultures at the LACMA. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. In 2003, the French Government named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and then promoted him in 2012 to the rank of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010, The President of Austria awarded him the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art. Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/moveable-feast-edmund-de-waal-paul-holdengraber-in-co Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/moveable-feast-edmund-de-waal-paul-holdengraber-in-conversation-a-map-of-remembering-place-family-story-8569