SITE
SANTA FE PRESENTS AN ART & CULTURE LECTURE BY PETER GALASSI
"MODERN ARTS AND MUSEUMS:
EXPLORING VS. EXPLAINING"
May 22, 2002
Santa Fe, NM -- SITE Santa Fe presents a lecture by Peter Galassi, chief curator
of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The
lecture is part of the ongoing Art & Culture series and will be held
on May 22 at 6 pm. "Modern Arts and Museums: Exploring vs. Explaining" will
focus on contemporary artists who use photography as their primary medium. General
Admission, $5; students, seniors, and SITE Santa Fe Members at Friend and Family
levels, $2.50; SITE Santa Fe Members at Supporter level and above, Free.
Peter Galassi assumed his current position at The Museum of Modern Art in New
York in 1991, but has worked there steadily since 1974. He has organized more
than 30 exhibitions for The Museum of Modern Art, many of which were accompanied
by publications authored or co-authored by Galassi, and that have toured nationally
and internationally. They include Aleksandr Rodchenko, Roy DeCarava:
A Retrospective, Pictures of the Times: A Century of Photography from
The New York Times, and Pleasures and Terror of Domestic Comfort.
Other notable exhibitions curated by Galassi include Cindy Sherman: The Complete
Untitled Film Stills, Michael Schmidt: U-ni-ty, and Lee Friedlander:
Letters from the People.
In 2001, Galassi acquired for The Museum of Modern Art more than 300 works from
the Thomas Walther collection, widely recognized as the pre-eminent private
collection of modernist photography, which includes outstanding works by virtually
every leading European and American photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. In
2000, he spearheaded the major acquisition of 1,000 works by Lee Friedlander
that span the artist's career, and in 1991, he began an acquisitions program
focused on postwar photography.
Peter Galassi earned his B.S. degree from Harvard College in 1972 and a doctorate
in art history from Columbia University in 1986. He was twice a fellow in the
Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was awarded
the Eric Mitchell Prize and the Governor's Award of Yale University in 1992,
and the International Center of Photography award for excellence in writing
in 1988.
SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series is partially supported by Lannan Foundation,
LLWW Foundation, Madelin Coit and Alan Levin, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck
Miller, and Marlene Nathan Meyerson.
Concurrent with this event are SITE Santa Fe's exhibitions: Thomas Demand, Fred
Tomaselli, and Yasumasa Morimura: Dialogue with Myself (Encounter) through June
2, 2002.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Friday, 10:00 a.m.
- 7:00 p.m. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a grant
from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered on Fridays
at 6:00 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tours in Spanish are by
appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of Santa
Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
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