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Henriette Huldisch
Henriette Huldisch is a German-born American curator of contemporary art. She is currently the Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to that, she was the Director of Exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Huldisch, an expert on film and video, started working in the museum world in 2001 immediately after she graduated New York University Tisch School of the Arts, NYU’s film-studies program. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Huldisch came to the United States after receiving a first master’s in American studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin’s Humboldt University. Career From 2001 to 2008, Huldisch was an Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney, where she co-curated the 2008 Whitney Biennial with Shamim M. Momin. Arthur C. Danto, reviewing the Biennial in ''The Nation'', praised Huldisch's characterisation of 'Lessness. An Art of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, together with the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and the Cowles Conservatory, it has an annual attendance of around 700,000 visitors. The museum's permanent collection includes over 13,000 modern and contemporary art pieces including books, costumes, drawings, media works, paintings, photography, prints, and sculpture. The Walker Art Center began 1879 as an art gallery in the home of lumber baron Thomas Barlow Walker. Walker formally established his collection as the Walker Art Gallery in 1927.Huber, Molly"Walker, Thomas Barlow (T.B.), (1840–1928)" '' Minnesota Historical Society'', 08 July 2015. Retrieved on 14 April 2015. With the support of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, the Walker Art Gallery be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix González-Torres
Félix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation was influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies. In 1987, he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose intention was to work collaboratively, adhering to principles of cultural activism and community education. González-Torres' work ''"Untitled" (L.A.)'' (1991), a 50 lb. installation of green hard candies, sold for $7.7 million at Christie's in 2015. Early life and career González-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba. In 1971, he and his sister Gloria were sent to Madrid where they stayed in an orphanage until settling in Puerto Rico with relatives the same year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
