Exhibition Curator

🇺🇸Kim Gordon

Music

b. 1953

"“I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous."

🇬🇧Nicholas Serota

b. 1946

"The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions."

"A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself."

🇬🇧Tilda Swinton

Entertainment

b. 1960

"A practical observation that I’ve made over the years with ancient beloved people in my life—real spiritual youth is gained latterly."

"I think I was just a very skinless person…And I had this terrible need to confess; and I still do it…It’s a bid to be loved, in some way."

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

🇺🇸Gail Levin

Art

b. 1948

"By definition, a catalogue raissonne employs methodical scholarship to gather and digest in systematic form all that can be known of an artist's work and life. In short the evidence of his intellectual and cultural life."

🇬🇧Roy Strong

Entertainment

b. 1935

"It will be like the end of time when the Queen dies."

"It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation.It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life,without which there is no life."

🇺🇸Willoughby Sharp

Art

1936–2008

"When I met Terry Fox in Berkeley in 1970, we became fast friends. I felt his sensibility had a lot in common with Beuys, whom I’d known for some time, and I helped get them together."

🇺🇸Alfred Stieglitz

Art

Photo-Secession

1864–1946

"AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself."

"Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."

🇫🇷Frank Popper

Education

1918–2020

"Roy Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation: for him, the strict antinomy between action and contemplation needed to be abolished."

🇺🇸Edward Steichen

Art

pictorialism

1879–1973

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. a major force in explaining man to man."