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golden year; Museum director and curator Thelma Golden is a diminutive powerhouse, shaking up the cultural agenda and turning heads with her punchy style.
Byline: Eve Macsweeney
When you're five foot nothing on a good day and your dress size is "less than zero," it helps to have a big personality. Thelma Golden, the newly appointed director of the Studio Museum in Harlem (she served as its chief curator for five years), has made her engaging presence felt in New York for the past decade and a half in ways that are anything but small. Crop-headed and chic, with big, eager eyes, Golden is all vivacity, with a speaking style that, if recorded, would sound normal on slow speed. A self-described seeker of "the black creative spirit," she has spent her time as a curator-first at the Whitney Museum of American Art, then ...
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Naves, Mario September 1, 1998 700+ words
...politically active in a variety of causes. The exhibition "Norman Lewis: Black Paintings 1946-1977"--on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem until September 20--focuses, as the title suggests, on one aspect of his work. For Lewis the challenge inherent...
- Aaron Siskind; Robert Mann Gallery / Andrea Rosen Gallery / Whitney museum of...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Kuspit, Donald January 1, 2004 700+ words
...becomes a grotesque face. (Both works are on view at the Whitney Museum.) Siskind is clearly at home in "liminal zones," the...Harlem Document," 1932-40, which were on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem, involve close attention to social rather than...
- The Whitney Museum of American Art recently inaugurated a new conservation...
- Magazine article from: Art in America November 1, 2003 700+ words
The Whitney Museum of American Art recently inaugurated a new conservation studio. Located on the building's fourth floor, facing Madison Avenue...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Panzer, Mary April 27, 1992 700+ words
...Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946" at the Whitney Museum, and "The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr." at The Studio Museum in Harlem. (I saw them last fall at the National Museum of American Art and...
- The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that its own curators...
- Magazine article from: Art in America April 1, 2007 700+ words
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that its own curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin...curator and writer Linda Norden, and former Whitney curator Thelma Golden, now director of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
- "The Art of Archibald J. Motley Jr." (exhibition) (The Studio Museum, in...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Panzer, Mary April 27, 1992 700+ words
...Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946" at the Whitney Museum, and "The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr." at The Studio Museum in Harlem. (I saw them last fall at the National Museum of American Art and...
- Golden year. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY's Whitney Biennial...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Harris, William September 1, 1998 700+ words
...native New Yorker, Golden began working at the Whitney in 1988 after graduation from Smith College; after a stint at the Studio Museum in Harlem, she returned to the Whitney in 1991. Golden is one of a handful of African-Americans in prestigious positions...
- Freestyling.(Studio Museum in Harlem )
- Magazine article from: Art in America VALDEZ, SARAH September 1, 2001 700+ words
...Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem is post...and programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibition...came her notorious Whitney Museum exhibition, "Black...make] the Whitney Museum completely irrelevant...