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An introductory essay by John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art and Allen R. Adler Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum and an essay by Jodi Roberts, Halperin Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, round out this extraordinary volume. (artbma.org)
John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, and Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum, joined Gagosian in 2012 as a consultant for special exhibitions. (gagosianquarterly.com)
This conversation, focusing on Frankenthaler's work in the 1960s and 1970s, will include Douglas Dreishpoon; John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, who has written extensively on the artist's life and career; Elizabeth Smith; and artist Clifford Ross, Frankenthaler's nephew and Chairman of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. (frankenthalerfoundation.org)