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Director's Series: Madeleine Grynsztejn
Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Madeleine Grynsztejn joins Guggenheim President Emeritus Jennifer Stockman and Rail Consulting Editor Joachim Pissarro for a conversation.
We will conclude with a reading by Ayelet Amittay.
The New Social Environment #1154
Recorded on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 Madeleine Grynsztejn -- Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Since 2008, she has helped the MCA redefine contemporary art museums as artist-activated, audience-engaged spaces for generating art, conversation, and connection while stewarding the best-attended exhibitions in the MCA’s history. Before the MCA, Grynsztejn was Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and curated the 1999/2000 Carnegie International. Grynsztejn is former President of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and was knighted to the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France. Recent publication participation includes Sarah Sze: Paintings and the forthcoming Royal Academy of Arts retrospective catalogue on Kerry James Marshall.
🚩 Joachim Pissarro -- Art historian, theoretician, curator, and educator Joachim Pissarro is director of the Hunter College Galleries and Bershad Professor of Art History at Hunter College. He has held positions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, MoMa, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Academy of London, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Notable exhibitions Pissarro curated include Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885 (2005) and Out of Time: A Contemporary View (2006, with Eva Respini), which have toured internationally. Pissarro has served as the Editorial Director of Wildenstein Publications and is the author of numerous books, most recently, Wild Art, with art critic David Carrier and published by Phaidon Press. Pisarro is Consulting Editor of the Rail.
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🚩 Jennifer Stockman -- Jennifer Blei Stockman produces feature length documentary films on artists and the art world. Her current film Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV premiered at Sundance in January 2023. Stockman is President Emeritus of the GUGGENHEIM and was its President for 15 years. She is a Founder of DMINTI which brings digital and web3 fluency to the more traditional art world. Stockman is a partner of Global Museum Strategy Group. Priorly, she worked as an executive for decades in business (IBM, Sears World Trade and running her own firm, SAI) and was actively involved for years as an activist for women’s rights. She has been an avid collector of contemporary art, including NFTs, since the 90s.
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🚩 Ayelet Amittay -- Ayelet Amittay is a poet and psychiatric nurse practitioner in Eugene, Oregon. Her first book of poems, The Eating Knife, is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Her chapbook, Therapy Room, won second place in the 2024 3-day International Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in Gulf Coast, Journal of the American Medical Association, Pleiades, Rattle, and other publications. She runs a private practice, Wild Geese Mental Health, and teaches at the Touchstone Institute.
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