Sentences with phrase «curator of the renaissance»

Solveig Øvstebø Solveig Øvstebø is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, which celebrates its centenary this year.

He first joined the National Gallery's staff in 1990 as the Clore Curator of Renaissance Painting.

Not exact matches

Reassured by his nondestructive technique, curators at the Smithsonian and several other museums agreed to let a team led by Moini sample silk objects spanning over 2000 years of history, from ancient Chinese silks and French Renaissance tapestries to a U.S. Civil War flag and silk spun last year.

Officials also presented Golden Lions that were announced last month, to artist El Anatsui and curator Susanne Ghez, the former long - serving director of the Renaissance Society in Chicago.

The 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum's biennial, «Made in L.A.,» will be organized by Aram Moshayedi, a curator at the museum, and Hamza Walker, the director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.This marks the... Read More

Prior to joining LAXART, Walker served as associate curator and director of education at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and cocurated (with Aram Moshayedi) the 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum's «Made in LA.»

During this time of female renaissance and the growing importance of women being seen and heard, curators Maia Ibar and Malado Baldwin have proposed an all - female show of art made by women at the New York Studio School.

A two volume exhibition catalogue documents both exhibitions and features contributions by Hamza Walker, LAXART Executive Director and former Director of Education and Associate Curator at the Renaissance Society, and Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art.

Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only is organized by Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, director of education and associate curator, Renaissance Society, with January Parkos Arnall, curatorial assistant, Public Engagement and MacKenzie Stevens, curatorial assistant.

APPOINTMENT On Dec. 18, Hammer Museum names Hamza Walker, director of Education and associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, co-curator of «Made in L.A. 2016.»

With speakers Thelma Golden, director and chief curator, the Studio Museum in Harlem; Hamza Walker, associate curator and director of education, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and artist Rodney McMillian.

Dackerman, a German Renaissance scholar, joins the Cantor after two years at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and a decade as curator of prints at the Harvard Art Museums.

Associate Curator and Director of Education at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Hamza Walker speaks with internationally noted conceptual artist Ryan Gander (Lisson Gallery) about his extraordinary practice.

Seydl, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, served as curator of European painting and sculpture at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 2007 to 2013, before joining the Worcester Art Museum as director of curatorial affairs the following year.

Walker, who is currently associate curator and director of education at the Renaissance Society of Chicago, is expected to take up the position in California on 1 October.

«Electric Ladyland,» the title of curator Hamza Walker's essay for Anne - Mie Van Kerckhoven's recent exhibition at the Renaissance Society, is a spot - on nickname for «In a Saturnian World,» the Belgian artist's latest and nearly unnavigable gaping opus.

More than a dozen anonymous nominators participated, along with the following jurors: Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society; Lane Relyea, art critic and professor at Northwestern University; Lisa Dorin, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Ehlers, independant curator; and Nick Cave, artist and past winner of the individual artist award.

The jury for the 2015 award are Shannon Fitzgerald, executive director of the Rochester Art Center in Minnesota; Buzz Spector, art professor at Washington University in St. Louis; and Hamza Walker, associate curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

By bringing a collection of painting, sculpture, photography, digital art and installations into this space, curator Vito Abba initiates a dialogue between the Renaissance and contemporary art, connecting works created half a century apart.

Prior to the appointment, he was the long - serving director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education / Associate Curator for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago - a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art.

Gifts to the Museum Include Masterworks of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Named Endowment for Curator of European Art

David Alan Brown, curator of Italian paintings at the National Gallery of Art, is cocurator (with Sylvia Ferino - Pagden) of «Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting.»

On Saturday, February 27th at The Clark in Williamstown, MA noted private collector Jon Landau, art dealer Andrew Butterfield, and former Clark Senior Curator Richard Rand discuss the collection of Renaissance and nineteenth - century painting and sculpture Landau has assembled over many years.

The curator, Marie Costello, interim director of the gallery, writes in her catalog essay that the woman is reminiscent of a Renaissance Madonna, and indeed the woman's broad - brimmed black hat appears as a kind of halo around her head.

1987 The Shape of Abstraction, Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, USA Interstices, Laurie Rubin, New York, USA (Jonathan Seliger, Curator) Fortieth Biennial Exhibition of Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA (Ned Rifkin, Curator) Postmasters Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA (Eugene Schwartz, Curator) Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newpor Cal - Arts: Skeptical Belief (s), Beach, USA Massimo Audiello, New York, USA Meine Maler, Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany New York, New Art, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England

Not far away, in another Getty gallery, there are different surprises in «Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,» including what Christine Sciacca, the assistant curator who put together the exhibition, said she believed might be the earliest image of a pretzel in art.

Alexa Greist, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque prints, and comes to the AGO from the Yale University Art Gallery, where she contributed to several notable exhibitions including Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena and Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints.

Join us on Saturday, January 12 for an opening reception and artist conversation with curators Naomi Beckwith of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society, artists Dawoud Bey and Theaster Gates, Tang Museum director Ian Berry, and Northwestern art history professor Huey Copeland.

According to the show's curators, Aram Moshayedi of the Hammer and Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society in Chicago, this focus on the creative value of expatriates or immigrants was not intentional but natural, given the cosmopolitan nature of Los Angeles.

Organization with an operating budget under $ 2 million Awardee PAMELA S. WALL, Curator of Exhibitions, Gibbes Museum of Art for The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South at the Gibbes Museum of Art Organization with an operating budget of $ 2 - $ 6 million Awardee STACY C. HOLLANDER, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Chief Curator, Director of Exhibitions, American Folk Art Museum for Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America at the American Folk Art Museum Organization with an operating budget of $ 6 - $ 15 million Awardees NANCY KATHRYN BURNS, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Worcester Art Museum KRISTINA WILSON, Associate Professor of Art History, & Chair, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Clark University Both for Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period at the Worcester Art Museum Organization with an operating budget of $ 15 - $ 30 million Awardees (tie) ANNE - MARIE EZE, Director of Scholarly & Public Programs, Houghton Library, Harvard University NATHANIEL SILVER, Associate Curator, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum both for Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum MASSUMEH FARHAD, Chief Curator & Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution SIMON RETTIG, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution both for The Art of the Qur» an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts at the Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Honorable Mention JENS HOFFMANN, Deputy Director, Exhibitions & Public Programs, The Jewish Museum CLAUDIA J. NAHSON, Morris & Eva Feld Curator, The Jewish Museum both for Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist at The Jewish Museum Organization with an operating budget over $ 30 million Awardees AL MINER, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston LAURA WEINSTEIN, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian & Islamic Art & Acting Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston both for Megacities Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Juried Undergraduate Fine Arts, Design & Kinetic Imaging April 1 — 18 Fine Arts Juror: Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, she was curator of the 2009 exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, co-organized with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and a contributor to the exhibition catalogue.

Having described the historical and theoretical premises for a thoroughly fascinating potential exhibition, Walker, director of education and associate curator of the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society, devotes less than half a paragraph to the discussion of the actual, and considerably less fascinating, exhibition.

Panelists included Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Aimee Chang, Director, Academic and Residency Programs, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Adam D. Weinberg (chair), Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Daniel Joseph Martinez, Artist and USA Broad Fellow 2007, Los Angeles.

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as director of education / associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art.

In addition to Suzanne Deal Booth and Heather Pesanti, Senior Curator, The Contemporary Austin, this year's inaugural advisory committee includes Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Peter Eleey, Chief Curator, MoMA PS1; Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; and Heidi Zuckerman, Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Aspen Art Museum.

Curators from both institutions have worked on this exhibition which will reflect their different specialisms, and aims to reveal the continuities of the Renaissance with both the medieval and earlier ages.

«We were simply operating within the already given theme of «Made in Los Angeles» — to take that at face value and to understand that within that, that announces a certain kind of heterogenic activity in the locale,» said Walker, director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art museum in Chicago.

«I don't know if it's a renaissance... it's a crew,» says Todd Levin, director of art - advisory firm Levin Art Group and curator of a show currently up at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

This fall, inaugural advisory board members, including MCA Chicago Curator Naomi Beckwith and Hamza Walker, director of education and associate curator at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and co-curator of Made in L.A. 2016, will select the first recipient of the Texas museum's prize, which is to be awarded every twoCurator Naomi Beckwith and Hamza Walker, director of education and associate curator at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and co-curator of Made in L.A. 2016, will select the first recipient of the Texas museum's prize, which is to be awarded every twocurator at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and co-curator of Made in L.A. 2016, will select the first recipient of the Texas museum's prize, which is to be awarded every twocurator of Made in L.A. 2016, will select the first recipient of the Texas museum's prize, which is to be awarded every two years.

In his catalogue essay, Hammer curator Moshayedi writes that «with great regularity, a relationship to place is best articulated from the perch of a so - called outsider perspective», decorously justifying his partnership with Walker, a Chicago resident and associate curator at the Renaissance Society.

The exhibition is curated by Sylvia Ferino - Pagden, curator of Italian Renaissance painting, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, who organized the previous exhibitions in Paris and Vienna.

Organization with an operating budget of $ 15 — $ 30 million: Anne - Marie Eze, director of scholarly and public programs at Harvard University's Houghton Library, and Nathaniel Silver, associate curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, both for «Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books» at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

In the 1950s, esteemed Renaissance scholar Frederick Hartt served as curator of the Washington University art collection and professor in what was then known as the Department of Art and Archaeology.

A jury of five arts professionals selected the recipients of the award and included Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society; Lane Relyea, professor at Northwestern University; Lisa Dorin, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Ehlers, independent curator; and Nick Cave, artist and past winner of this award.

In 2016, Made in L.A. was organized by Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, who was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, at the time, and now serves as executive director of LAXART in Los Angeles.

With Zheng Shengtian, he co-organized the first large scale international curators» tour of China in 2000, which included curators for Documenta, Dia Art Foundation, Renaissance Society, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Gate Foundation and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Next morning, Renaissance Society curator Hamza Walker gave me a tour of an eccentric show opening that night by the German Conceptualist Josef Strau, one related to Native American mythology that I couldn't imagine at any other institution in the country.

I spotted New Museum director Lisa Phillips leading a group from New York, while Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs, Rauschenberg Foundation director Christy MacLear, and artist Ryan Gander were among those imported to take part with Renaissance Society curator Hamza Walker in EXPO's «Dialogues» program of conversations.