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Cornelia Butler
Cornelia H. "Connie" Butler (born 1 February 1963) is an American museum curator, author, and art historian. Since 2013, Butler is the Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Career Butler is a 1980 graduate of Marlborough School, and a 1984 graduate of Scripps College. From 2006 to 2013, she served as the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Prior to that, she was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), from 1996 to 2006. Butler also held curatorial positions at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York; Artists Space in New York City; and the Des Moines Arts Center. She was hired as curator of drawings for MoMA in October 2005, when she was still working on developing her ''WACK!'' project for MOCA. Her multimedia exhibition ''WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution'' dealt with international feminist art of the 1970s. The exhibit was shown at The Geffen Contemporary at the Mu ...
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Scripps College
Scripps College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded as a member of the Claremont Colleges in 1926, a year after the consortium's formation. Journalist and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps provided its initial Financial endowment, endowment. Scripps is a four-year Undergraduate education, undergraduate institution and enrolled 958 students . It offers instruction in the Liberal arts education, liberal arts with an emphasis on the humanities, and is known for its extensive interdisciplinary core curriculum. Its campus was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Scripps is widely regarded as the most prestigious women's college in the American West, and is consistently ranked the top such college by ''U.S. ...
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Scripps College Alumni
Scripps may refer to: People * Edward W. Scripps (1854–1926), American publisher and media financier * Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), American philanthropist, half-sister of Edward W. Scripps * James E. Scripps (1835–1906), American newspaper publisher, brother of Ellen Browning Scripps * Samuel H. Scripps (1927–2007), American philanthropist in theater and dance, grandson of Edward W. Scripps * Anne Scripps (1946–1993), heiress to the Scripps newspaper publishing and great-great granddaughter of James E. Scripps * Charles Scripps (1920–2007), chairman of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company and grandson of Edward W. Scripps * Dan Scripps, American politician * John Locke Scripps (1818–1866), attorney, journalist, and author. First cousin once removed of E.W. Scripps * John Martin Scripps (1959–1996), British serial killer * Natalee Scripps (born 1978), New Zealand cricketer * William Edmund Scripps (1882–1952), American founder of WWJ radio, son of Ja ...
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People Associated With The Museum Of Modern Art (New York City)
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American Women Curators
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American Art Curators
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Klaus Biesenbach
Klaus Biesenbach (born 1966)Erica Orden (December 26, 2009)Herr Zeitgeist''New York Magazine''. is a European American curator and the museum director. He is the Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, with Berggruen Museum and Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, as well as the Berlin Museum of Modern Art under construction, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts. Previously, he had been serving as the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), from 2018 to 2021. He is also a former Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and former director of MoMA PS1. He is also the founding director of Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW) in Berlin, and the Berlin Biennale. Early life Biesenbach was born in 1966, in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany. From 1987, he began studying medicine in Munich. He moved to Berlin in the mid-1990s, where he shared an apartment with artist Andrea Zittel at one point. Career Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporar ...
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Catherine De Zegher
Catherine de Zegher (born Marie-Catherine Alma Gladys de Zegher Groningen, April 14, 1955) is a Belgian curator and a modern and contemporary art historian. She has a degree in art history and archaeology from the University of Ghent. From 1988 to 1998, de Zegher was director of the Kunststichting Kanaal, Kortrijk,http://www.liebaertprojects.be/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nieuwsblad98.pdf from 1999 to 2006, executive director and chief curator of the Drawing Center, New York, from 2007 to 2009, director of exhibitions and publications of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and from 2013 to 2017, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. In 2017, she was temporarily suspended from this post as a result of the Toporovski Collection Controversy. She was permanently suspended in 2019 and in 2020, she retired.
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Luis Pérez-Oramas
Luis Pérez-Oramas (August 7, 1960 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan/American poet, art historian and curator. He is the author of eleven poetry books, seven recollections of essays, and numerous art exhibition catalogs. He has contributed as Op-Ed author to national newspapers in Venezuela ( El Nacional and El Universal) as well as to various literary and art magazines in Latin America and Europe. Early life He studied Comparative Literature in Caracas at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, graduating Summa Cum Laude after writing a thesis on the Mexican poet José Gorostiza. Later he pursued his studies in Philosophy and Art History in Toulouse and Paris (France), receiving a Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHHSS, Paris) in 1994, under the direction of Louis Marin and Hubert Damisch, after completing his doctoral dissertation on Diego Velazquez. He was a member of Grupo Guaire, in Venezuela, and took part at the Taller Calicanto under the direction ...
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford (born November 20, 1961) is an American visual artist. Born in Los Angeles, Bradford studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Recognized for his collaged painting works, which have been shown internationally, his practice also encompasses video, print, and installation. Bradford was the U.S. representative for the 2017 Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Early life and education Bradford was born and raised in South Los Angeles. His mother rented a beauty salon in Leimert Park. Bradford moved with his family to a largely white neighborhood in Santa Monica when he was 11, but his mother still maintained her business in the old neighborhood. Bradford worked in her shop at times. When Bradford graduated high school, he obtained his hairdresser's license and went to work at his mother's salon. Bradford began his studies at Santa Monica College and then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1991 at the age of 30. He ...
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Jamillah James
Jamillah James (born 1980) is an American curator. She is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Early life and education James grew up in New Jersey. Her mother was a musician. James's early interest in music and film provided one way into the world of visual art. James attended Columbia College Chicago, where she was in the first class to study art history. She graduated in 2005. While in Chicago for college, James founded a DIY, live/work experimental music venue called Pink Section and later lived at the exhibition space Archer Ballroom, where she organized live music performances. Career Before moving to Los Angeles, James was an independent curator and held curatorial fellowships at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-2014) and the Queens Museum (2010). James was Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum. At the Hammer Museum she organized shows by Alex Da Corte, Simone Leigh, and Charles Gaines. She also curated Njideka Akunyili Crosby's firs ...
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