Core Spring Lecture Series

Thursday, March 13, 20087:00 p.m.

Laura Hoptman, senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will discuss "Unmonumentality"


"Laura Hoptman is senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in
New York. Previously, she was the curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art where she organized the 54th Carnegie International exhibition (2004-05). From 1995-2001, she was a curator of drawing at The Museum of Modern Art, organizing numerous exhibitions and projects by contemporary artists including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans and John Currin, John Bock, and Maurizio Cattelan. While at MoMA she co-curated Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama (1998) with Lynn Zelevansky, which traveled to the LA County Museum, The Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, as well as Drawing Now: Eight Propositions (2002) an exhibition of drawings by 23 international artists. Most recently, she organized a retrospective of the work of comic artist Robert Crumb at the Museum Boijmans von Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. In 2006 she organized Strange Powers, a group exhibition of contemporary art under the auspices of Creative Time in
New York City.

In addition to catalogs accompanying the 54th Carnegie International, Drawing Now, and Love Forever, Hoptman is the author of Yayoi Kusama (Phaidon Press, 2000) and the co-editor of Primary Documents, an anthology of writing about contemporary art in East and Central Europe from the 1950s to the present. She has written frequently for magazines including Parkett, and Frieze."

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