Ann Goldstein (1957) is an American

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currently serving as deputy director and chair of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Goldstein formerly served as a curator at the

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, and as

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of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.Organization: Directors: Ann Goldstein
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Life and work

Goldstein was born in 1957 in

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. She studied at the

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, where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art.Ann Goldstein appointed new director at Stedelijk Museum
''Metropolis M'', 2009. Retrieved on 2012-09-29. Goldstein worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 1983 to 2009. She was the senior

from 2001 onwards. Her expertise was minimal and

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of the 1960–70s and current practices. From 2010 until 2012, she was the

of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, a museum of modern art,

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, and

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'', 2009. Retrieved on 2012-10-14. Her first two and a half years at the Stedelijk, the museum was closed for renovation (since 2003), until it reopened for the general public in September 2012. In 2013, she was the artistic director of the museum alongside Karin van Gilst as managing director, until Goldstein resigned and left the museum on 1 December 2013. In March 2016, Goldstein was selected as the deputy director, chair, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

References

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