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The Now Museum: Sources of the Contemporary Museum

PAMELA M. LEE AND CARLOS BASUALDO

Pamela M. Lee is an art historian who specialises in the art, theory, and criticism of late modernism with a historical focus on the 1960s and 1970s. A recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty Institute, Lee’s publications include Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (2000), Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (2004), and most recently Art History Since the Sixties: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts (2011). She is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Carlos Basualdo is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curator at MAXXI, Rome. He was the lead organizer of “Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens,” which represented the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. He was formerly Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2000–02), and has written extensively for scholarly journals and arts publications.

“The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models” was presented by the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Independent Curators International, and the New Museum on March 10, 2011 – March 13, 2011.

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