“I am honored to have been chosen to lead this institution, and I look forward to working with the Board and staff as we continue its mission serving the New York and Queens communities, as well as the broader international network of artists who represent MoMA PS1’s incredible past and future.” “MoMA PS1 has a remarkable and important history, a rich and exciting present-day community of staff, artists, and audiences, and a potential that seems unlimited,” Butler said in a statement. The exhibition’s catalogue, which includes short biographies for each of the 140 artists included, is now considered an essential text. That exhibition is widely credited with rewriting art history through a feminist lens, examining how activism helped shape the art-making of numerous women artists between 19. Her most well-known exhibition during her tenure there was 2007’s groundbreaking “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” which traveled to PS1 in 2008. Prior to joining MoMA, Butler was a longtime curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She served on the curatorial team of the 2010 edition of Greater New York at PS1. Other curatorial credits at the museum include solo outings for Marisa Merz, Lari Pittman, and Andrea Fraser, as well as a landmark retrospective for Adrian Piper, which was co-organized MoMA.Īt MoMA, her two most important exhibitions were the first major US surveys for Lygia Clark (2014) and Marlene Dumas (2009–09), as well as “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century” (2010). A major survey for Mark Bradford, his first institutional solo show in his hometown, followed. biennial, which included a range of artists who are now well-established, including Wu Tsang, Samara Golden, Tala Madani, Clarissa Tossin, and A.L. I look forward to working with her again.”ĭuring her tenure at the Hammer Museum, which began in 2013, she was key in significantly raising that institution’s profile, establishing it as one of the city’s most important museums and a place known internationally for mounting cutting-edge exhibitions.Īmong her first exhibitions at the Hammer was the 2014 edition of the Made in L.A. “With her close working relationships with artists, both established and emerging, and her long-standing connections to MoMA and New York, we know she will advance MoMA PS1 in all aspects of its ambitious program. “Connie Butler is widely known and admired as a trailblazing curator and scholar, as well as a dedicated mentor to rising museum professionals,” MoMA director Glenn Lowry said in a statement. One change he’s considering is reducing admission fees.With Messages of Healing and Hope, Daniel Lind-Ramos's Poignant Sculptures Filter the Personal Yet Communal Experiences of the Last Few Years He brought in a new chief curator in August, but it will take time to restore the museum to its former prominence. Known for his collaborative and artist-oriented style, he has said MOCA has to be the most innovative museum in the country. MOCA endured six rocky years of financial problems and increasingly sparse programming before new director Philippe Vergne was lured away from New York’s Dia Art Foundation in early 2014. San Vicente, West Hollywood) is an earth-toned cube next to the design center that focuses on contemporary architecture and design. MOCA Pacific Design Center (8687 Melrose Ave. With the easiest parking of the three, it’s a good place to start. Temple Metro Gold Line to Little Tokyo/Arts District) shows the museum’s most interesting rotating exhibitions-it held the largest show of Mark Kelley’s work to date in 2014. The warehouse-like Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Little Tokyo (152 N. It also houses the museum’s popular restaurant, Lemonade (open during museum hours tel. Thad Kosciuszko Way Metro Red Line to Pershing Square.), the main venue, opened “Andy Warhol: Shadows,” the first West Coast showing of all 102 parts of the monumental painting, in September 2014. The imposing red sandstone MOCA Grand Avenue (250 S. Its 6,800-piece collection-one of the best in the country, including numerous Rothkos, Pollack’s first drip painting, Johns, and dozens of other 20th century artists, as well as challenging work by emerging artists-is spread among three locations. Known for its provocative, ambitious, and sometimes difficult exhibits, MOCA is L.A.’s only museum focusing solely on art from 1940 to the present.
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