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Join us for an in-depth conversation and behind the scenes look at “Alice Neel: People Come First” featuring Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition co-curators Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky curator of contemporary art, and Randall Griffey, curator of modern and contemporary art, facilitated by Lauren Palmor, assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
About the Speakers:
Kelly Baum is the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky curator of contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has held curatorial positions at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has curated and co-curated dozens of group and single-artist exhibitions, including: “Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space”, 2000–2010; “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason,” 1950–1980; “Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us,” 2019–2020; “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture,” 1962–2017; and most recently, “Charles Ray: Figure Ground,” 2022. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware in 2005 and was a 2018 fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Randall Griffey is curator of modern and contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to The Met, Griffey held curatorial positions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1999–2008) and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College (2008–2012). Since arriving at The Met, Griffey has curated numerous exhibitions—most recently with Kelly Baum, “Alice Neel: People Come First,” which received Apollo magazine’s Exhibition of the Year for 2021.
Lauren Palmor is assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she has helped realize such recent major exhibitions as “Revelations: Art from the African American South,” 2017–2018, and the San Francisco presentation of “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” 1963–1983. She received a master of arts in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009) and a PhD in art history from the University of Washington (2016). She has held fellowships at Winterthur and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues and scholarly publications, including “Revelations: Art from the African American South” (2017) and “Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art” (2018). She is the author of “Bouquets of Art: A Floral Dictionary” from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which will be released later this year. She frequently supports institutional digital partnerships, working collaboratively to design new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.
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Join us for an in-depth conversation and behind the scenes look at “Alice Neel: People Come First” featuring Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition co-curators Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky curator of contemporary art, and Randall Griffey, curator of modern and contemporary art, facilitated by Lauren Palmor, assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
About the Speakers:
Kelly Baum is the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky curator of contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has held curatorial positions at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has curated and co-curated dozens of group and single-artist exhibitions, including: “Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space”, 2000–2010; “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason,” 1950–1980; “Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us,” 2019–2020; “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture,” 1962–2017; and most recently, “Charles Ray: Figure Ground,” 2022. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware in 2005 and was a 2018 fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Randall Griffey is curator of modern and contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to The Met, Griffey held curatorial positions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1999–2008) and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College (2008–2012). Since arriving at The Met, Griffey has curated numerous exhibitions—most recently with Kelly Baum, “Alice Neel: People Come First,” which received Apollo magazine’s Exhibition of the Year for 2021.
Lauren Palmor is assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she has helped realize such recent major exhibitions as “Revelations: Art from the African American South,” 2017–2018, and the San Francisco presentation of “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” 1963–1983. She received a master of arts in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009) and a PhD in art history from the University of Washington (2016). She has held fellowships at Winterthur and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues and scholarly publications, including “Revelations: Art from the African American South” (2017) and “Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art” (2018). She is the author of “Bouquets of Art: A Floral Dictionary” from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which will be released later this year. She frequently supports institutional digital partnerships, working collaboratively to design new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.
Learn more about the exhibition: deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/alice-neel
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