Nancy Spector is curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she has curated numerous exhibitions, including those on conceptual photography, Robert Rauschenberg, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. At the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, she initiated commissions by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, and Andreas Slominski. She was an adjunct curator of the 1997 Venice Biennale and co-curator of the first Berlin Biennial in 1998. Most recently, Nancy Spector has organized Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum (February 21 – June 11, 2003) that will bring together the interconnected components–films, sculptures, drawings, and photographs–of Barneys five-part cycle.

During her illustrated lecture, Nancy Spector will provide an overview of the CREMASTER cycle by discussing the major themes and their manifestation in each installment of the project. Specific attention will be paid to the final film of the cycle, CREMASTER 3, which will be screened at The Screen at The College of Santa Fe as part of this event. SITE Santa Fes Art & Culture series is supported in part by Dottie and Dick Barrett, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, Katherine and James Gentry, Emily Fisher Landau, LLWW Foundation, and Barbara and Michael Ogg. This announcement is partially funded by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers Tax.