A review of "A Night For Human Rights", a contemporary art auction curated by Marc Mayer and Julia Lourie to call attention to urgent human rights violations including America's mass incarceration epidemic and the current Syrian refugee crisis.
Julia Lourie is an independent curator based out of Brooklyn, NY. She works closely with artists to create exhibitions that explore the intersections of fine art and social justice. Lourie has contributed her efforts to numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including Kara Walker's A Subtlety… at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn (2014), Room for Forbidden Books by Alicia Framis at Art Basel – Parcours, Switzerland (2015), and When I Give I Give Myself at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015).
