West Virginia State Museum Curator Jim Mitchell's resume boasts a whopping 51 years of experience as a museum curator. He's one of the top 10 authorities on decorative arts in the nation. On Aug. 24, he'll appear as an expert on "Sons of Guns," a cable television show about weapons. His extensive knowledge and experience might have gone in a different direction if a substitute professor hadn't taught his history course his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. His comments during a classroom discussion impressed the professor, who recognized Mitchell a few days later at the state historical society.
Art and science meet daily at the Clay Center. Arif Khan, the new Mary Price Ratrie Curator of Art, fits perfectly into that scene. He grew up in New Mexico, the home of the atomic bomb and Georgia O'Keeffe, contributing to his interest in both fields. Those were the two biggest industries - arts and sciences," Khan said recently from Albuquerque as he waited for a moving van. "All of the national science laboratories, and artists from Georgia O'Keeffe up until now, truly influenced me.
NEW YORK - An assistant museum curator who questioned the authenticity of a Leonardo da Vinci has been murdered - but before he died he left a code in his appointment calendar and a cryptic trail of clues connected to secrets in works of art that point to the killer. Now, would-be gumshoes must figure out what drove one of four suspects to kill him. Was it greed? Fame? Lust? Or revenge?
Kristina Newhouse has been at Cal State Long Beach once before, when she received her Master's of Fine Arts in ceramics in 1996. On Tuesday she returned, in her new post as curator of exhibitions for the University Art Museum.
The pp doc is going with the flow. So, while Dr. Rainer Engel - who uses the aforementioned witticism in his email address - has stepped down as curator of the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History in Linthicum, he's not fading away.
After being nominated in January only to become a political pawn at the end of the legislative session and have his name withdrawn at the last minute, Craig Van Matre is officially a University of Missouri curator. Craig Van Matre
Fork in the Road Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks 488 Greenwich Street, 212-226-5731 Spending a day in the most interesting cookbook shop in the city BY SARAH DIGREGORIO Joanne Hendricks's shop is on the western edge of Soho, in a brick house that slumps under the weight of its 200 years, bulging gently as though it has a potbelly. On the shelves, first editions of Howto Cook a Wolf to/ M.F.K. Rsher, 200-year-old French cookbooks, and gaudy-colored tomes from the 70s all keep company with odd treasures like plastic plates of food from Japanese display windows and an Etruscan clay pot.
After seven years of running Fe Gallery, a nonprofit contemporary art exhibit space in Lawrenceville, Jill Larson is stepping down from her position as director and head curator. I have done what I can at Fe, in its given location," Larson says. "It is now time to let others mold the little art space with a big mission.
[Chavez] is passionate about the possibilities of art. As a curator she sees her job as "bringing people to the art not just to understand it but participate in it, knowing that it can be a great force in their lives." She also understands some of the challenges. "People are really outspoken, often with negative comments like ? wouldn't pay much money for that.' I enjoy the conversations. It's important to have dialogue with the community and find out what kind of issues they have. Fm an educator so I'm always interested. I'm convinced that both parties can learn, not just the person who has the degree. Joanna Spitzner, an assistant professor and vocal supporter of Suparak, still harbors resentment about the decision but bears the successor no ill will. "I wish the best to Anja Chavez ...
During the first week of June, many of the artists selected to participate in SITE Santa Fe's Seventh International Biennial, Lucky Number Seven were busy preparing their spaces and artworks. In the unfussy work atmosphere, amid the sounds of hammering and drilling and sawing, there was laughter, as well as concentration, camaraderie, and sometimes intensity. Entering the SITE space on June 3, I just missed biennial curator Lance M. Fung lambasting one of the artists. "My work is so transparent, the same as how I speak, just like you would have heard me screaming at this artist, saying some really heavy-duty stuff, which I meant and I won't take back," Fung said. "It is what it is. Look at Lucky Number Seven. My work is me, and I'm my work. I'm not conceiving anything here. Lucky Number...
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