The New Social Environment#294
Alice Neel: People Come First
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Kelly Baum and Randy Griffey, co-curators of the exhibit Alice Neel: People Come First, join Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld in conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Devin Goldring.
In this talk
Kelly Baum
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, Modern, and Contemporary Art Kelly Baum has been a curator for over two decades at civic and university art museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Princeton University Art Museum, where she was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art. Kelly has published widely and organized dozens of exhibitions, including Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 with Katy Siegel in 2018, Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space 2000-2010, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled; and New Jersey as Non-Site.
Randy Griffey
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Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Randy Griffey is co-curator of Alice Neel: People Come First, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 1, 2021. Griffey has held curatorial positions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. At the MET, Griffey organized Reimagining Modernism: 1900–1950, a comprehensive reinterpretation of the museum’s collections of European and American modern painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and design. He co-curated Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today Mural Rediscovered. Among his publications are the article “Marsden Hartley’s Aryanism: Eugenics in a Finnish‐Yankee Sauna,” and the essay “Reconsidering ‘The Soil’: The Stieglitz Circle, Regionalism, and Cultural Eugenics in the 1920s.”
Jason Rosenfeld
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Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Devin Goldring reading.
Devin Goldring
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A writer from New Jersey, Devin Goldring received their BFA in Writing with a focus in Fiction from Pratt Institute in 2019. They currently attend Columbia University as an MFA student in Nonfiction Writing.
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