Changes in Storr for Philadelphia Museum of Art
Saturday December 10, 2005
By Stan Parchin
Saturday December 10, 2005
The new triumvirate of specialists in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was completed yesterday with the announcement of Robert Storr as Consulting Curator. He joins Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art since 2004 and Carlos Basualdo, appointed Curator of Contemporary Art this year. In his new part-time position as Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Storr will help plan the development of the museum's gallery expansion, acquisitions, special exhibitions and publications (in print or online).
Robert Storr is currently the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. In addition to his graduate-level academic responsibilities, he's the organizer of the 2007 Venice Biennale. A published critic and artist, Storr was the Museum of Modern Art's Curator of Painting and Sculpture from 1990 to 2000. During his tenure at MoMA, he curated such dynamic exhibitions as Chuck Close (1998) and From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson (1996).
Storr lectures frequently here and abroad. A contributing editor of Art in America magazine since 1981, he'll help oversee the Philadelphia Museum of Art's rich holdings in Modern and Contemporary Art. Its collection of Modernist artworks, begun in the 1920s and 1930s with masterpieces by Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, now includes seminal works by Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns.
Saturday December 10, 2005
The new triumvirate of specialists in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was completed yesterday with the announcement of Robert Storr as Consulting Curator. He joins Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art since 2004 and Carlos Basualdo, appointed Curator of Contemporary Art this year. In his new part-time position as Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Storr will help plan the development of the museum's gallery expansion, acquisitions, special exhibitions and publications (in print or online).
Robert Storr is currently the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. In addition to his graduate-level academic responsibilities, he's the organizer of the 2007 Venice Biennale. A published critic and artist, Storr was the Museum of Modern Art's Curator of Painting and Sculpture from 1990 to 2000. During his tenure at MoMA, he curated such dynamic exhibitions as Chuck Close (1998) and From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson (1996).
Storr lectures frequently here and abroad. A contributing editor of Art in America magazine since 1981, he'll help oversee the Philadelphia Museum of Art's rich holdings in Modern and Contemporary Art. Its collection of Modernist artworks, begun in the 1920s and 1930s with masterpieces by Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, now includes seminal works by Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns.
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