Joachim Pissarro
Joachim Pissarro has been the Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, New York, since 2007. He has also held positions at MoMA, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. His latest book on Wild Art (with co-author David Carrier) was published in fall 2013 by Phaidon Press.
The great classical archeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann once said to Jeff Koons that if the ancients had the technology that we do today, they’d be doing exactly what Koons is doing. This is particularly apt when one considers the paintings and sculptures in Porcelain Series, Koons's new exhibition at Gagosian. Joachim Pissarro visited the artist at his studio in the lead-up to the installation to discuss the visual power of art, how that power stimulates a viewer’s sensations and arouses emotion, as well as our noetic faculties.
For this iteration of the Brooklyn Rail’s Director’s Series, Min Jung Kim joined Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro for a conversation that spans her time at Sotheby’s Korea, the Samsung Art Foundation and Ho-Am Art Gallery, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.
Dorothy Kosinski is the Director Emerita of the Phillips Collection as of 2023. Recently, she joined Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro to discuss her work as the curator of the Douglas Cooper Collection, her tenure in Dallas, how the expansion of private foundations affects public museums, and the challenges—and ultimate success—of guiding the Phillips Collection through the turbulent politics that surrounded the Black Lives Matter movement..
Since 2008, Madeleine Grynsztejn has helped the MCA redefine contemporary art museums as artist-activated, audience-engaged spaces for generating art, conversation, and connection while stewarding the best-attended exhibitions in the MCA’s history. Recently, Grynsztejn joined Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro to discuss the importance of action and purpose within a museum, the ways our personal narratives influence our artistic and professional lives, and the joy of giving young artists their first big exhibitions.
An art historian by training, Laurent Le Bon served as Director of the Musée Picasso prior to his appointment as the President of the Centre Pompidou. In the conversation that follows, Le Bon discusses the importance of returning to the testimony of Brancusi, staying true to the mandates of the museum’s architects, and the Guggenheim as a pioneer of international satellite institutions.
