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Apr 16, 2010
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Lecture: Statuesque: The New Figuration
New Mexico Museum of Art

Nicholas Baume is the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund in New York. In his lecture, he will discuss the role of Public Art Fund, as well as trends in contemporary art. Baume is the juror for  Art on the Edge, 2010.

Before assuming his current position, Baume was chief curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, where he was responsible for shaping the artistic program, including the establishment of a permanent collection and the ongoing Momentum project series. From 1998 to 2003, Baume was contemporary curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. His past exhibitions at the Atheneum include About Face: Andy Warhol ortraits, Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes, and first American museum shows by Francis Alÿs, Sam Durant, Thomas Eggerer, Christian Jankowski, Catherine Sullivan, and Fiona Tan. For the ICA, Baume has curated exhibitions of the work of Kai Althoff, Kader Attia, Carol Bove, Gerard Byrne, Tara Donovan (with Jen Mergel), Thomas Hirschhorn (with Ralph Rugoff), Anish Kapoor, and Lucy McKenzie, and the group exhibitions Getting Emotional and Super Vision.

$5 suggested donation.

St. Francis Auditorium, at the New Mexico Museum of Art 



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