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Adam D. Weinberg
Adam D. Weinberg is an art museum curator. He was the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art for 20 years, from October 1, 2003 to October 31, 2023. Education He holds a BA from Brandeis University and a master's degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, the State University of New York at Buffalo. Career Adam D. Weinberg has been a prominent figure in the arts since the 1980s, when he started his career at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as Director of Education and Assistant Curator. He joined the Whitney in 1989, initially as Director of its Equitable Center Branch at 52nd and Seventh Avenue. After three years as the artistic and program director of the American Center France in Paris, he returned to the Whitney in 1993 as Curator of the Permanent Collection and was elevated to Senior Curator in 1998. He served as the Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover from 1999 until 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curator
A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. The term "curator" may designate the head of any given division, not limited to museums. Curator roles include "community curators", "literary curators", " digital curators", and " biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator", or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library, or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific collections. In smaller organizations, a curator may have sole r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and printmaking, prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. He is well known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jews, Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son of an émigré who had lost a factory he owned in Ukraine, Odesa.Cathleen McGuigan (August 2009)Alex Katz Is Cooler Than Ever ''Smithsonian Magazine''. In 1928 the family moved to St. Albans, Queens, where Katz grew up.ALEX KATZ: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tuttle
Richard Dean Tuttle (born July 12, 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span a range of formats, from sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and artist’s books to installation and furniture. He lives and works in New York City, Abiquiú, New Mexico,Richard Tuttle: Matter, September 21 - October 31, 2013 Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris. and Mount Desert, Maine. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American abstract painter and sculptor, who was part of the Black Abstractionism canon. According to the Museum of Modern Art, he "invented art-making techniques that were the first of their kind." In 2016, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts. Early life and education Jack Whitten was born December 5, 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama, to Mose Whitten and Annie B. Cunningham. His father was a coal miner who died when he was eight years old.Cooper Union (February 7, 2018) In Memoriam: Jack Whitten, Renowned Artist and Teacher His mother was a seamstress who eventually founded a private kindergarten. His first exposure to art was through his mother's first husband, Monroe Cross, a sign painter. He inherited Cross' tools, and as a teenager, he worked painting price tags for local stores. Whitten attended Carver Junior High School and the former Dunbar High School.Whitten, Jack (July 13, 2018) Who Are You, Jack Whitten?''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Artschwager
Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism. Early life and art Artschwager was born in Washington, D.C., to European immigrant parents. His father, Ernst Artschwager, was a Protestant botanistHolland Cotter (October 25, 2012)An Enigma Wrapped in Formica''New York Times''. born in Prussia, who suffered greatly from tuberculosis. His mother, Eugenia (née Brodsky),Charmaine Picard (October 25, 2012)The Story Behind Richard Artschwager's Whitney Survey and High Line "blps"''ARTINFO''. an amateur artist and designer who studied at the Corcoran School of Art, was a Jews, Jewish Ukrainians, Ukrainian. From his mother, Artschwager received his love of art. In 1935, the family moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, because of his father's deteriorating health. At that time, Artschwager was already showing a talent for drawing. In 1941, Artschwager ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Puryear
Martin L. Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.Shearer, Linda. ''Young American Artists 1978 Exxon National Exhibition''. New York: The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, 1978 The artist's ''Liberty/Libertà'' exhibition represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Life Born in 1941 in Washington, DC, Martin Puryear began exploring traditional craft methods in his youth, making tools, boats, musical instruments, and furniture. After receiving a BA in Fine Art from the Catholic University of America in 1963, Puryear spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone.Elderfield, John, and Michael Auping, ''Martin Puryear''. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007 From 1966 to 1968, he studied printmaking at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nari Ward
Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American artist based in New York City. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Hunter College. His work is often composed of found objects from his neighborhood, and "address issues related to consumer culture, poverty, and race". His awards include the Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts in 2017, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Early life and education Ward was born in 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica and moved to the United States at age 12. By then, his talent for drawing was apparent, but according to Ward, his parents "didn’t know any artists or grow up around artists, so the artist was always the crazy guy on the outside and always broke," so he first studied advertising before changing his focus to his own art. He completed a BA from Hunter College, CUNY in 1991 and a MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY in 1992. In 2011, he became a citizen of the United States. Career Ward has shown in a wide variety of solo and group exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder (born 1959) is a Canadian-American artist known for site-specific installation art, installation works and sculptures that are often described as "paintings in space."Kino, Carol"Go Ahead, Play With (And On) the Art,"''The New York Times'', June 14, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2022.Asthoff, Jens. ["Jessica Stockholder: Peer Out to See,"] ''Artforum'', December 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2022.Schwabsky, Barry. "The Magic of Sobriety,''Jessica Stockholder'' London: Phaidon Press, 1995. Retrieved January 12, 2022. She came to prominence in the early 1990s with monumental works that challenged boundaries between artwork and display environment as well as between pictorial and physical experience.Barliant, Claire. "Jessica Stockholder: Redefining the Frame," ''Sculpture'', April 2005, p. 35–9.Westfall, Stephen"Jessica Stockholder by Stephen Westfall,"''Bomb'', October 1992. Retrieved January 6, 2022.Celant, Germano''Installations in Symbiosis: Jessica Stockholder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
