EventsThe New Social Environment#294

Alice Neel: People Come First

Monday, May 10, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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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

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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, DC), 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 Dao Strom reading.

      Dao Strom

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      Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

      We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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