Alexandra Schwartz

Alexandra Schwartz, Ph.D., is Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Craft & Design at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Her upcoming and recent exhibitions include Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe and Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art at MAD; 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings at The Clark Art Institute. She is the author of and Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles and the co-editor of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art.

February 2025Critics Page

Goddesses and Empathic Universe

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Goddesses are archetypes; they're not really people. They do have human characteristics, and you can flesh those out, but when you're in a space with a goddess sculpture you’re simply in the presence of whatever those characteristics are.

Goddesses and Empathic Universe

March 2017Critics Page

Art as Fashion, Fashion as Art

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In these grave times, art and fashion may seem, more than ever, like luxuries. But they are inextricably intertwined with everyday life, including political life. Think of the pink pussy hats that thousands of women knitted themselves to wear to the Women’s Marches on January 21.
Portrait of Alexandra Schwartz. Pencil on paper by Phong Bui.

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