Dita Amory, the show's chief curator, explains that these, and indeed all the pictures painted before 1923, were deliberately omitted.
Curator Paul Schimmel, the former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, recalls meeting Kelley at a rooftop barbecue.
While Ms. Taubman and MAD's chief curator, David McFadden, have organized their "Changing Hands" show thematically, the works' hybrid character defies easy categorization.
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David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York says one man in particular helped launch that space craze.
Jefferson not only studied the book in detail, but also advised his family to read it, according to Massumeh Farhad, Freer and Sackler's chief curator.
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Decker, a former Chief Curator of Washington's National Building Museum, believes the concept of a street in the sky is "antagonistic" to how cities should work.
Creating the estate must have consumed a significant chunk of his inheritance, but Darren Poupore, Biltmore's chief curator, says the archives are silent on financial details.
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The drawings on view at Schloss Moyland are key to understanding the artist, says Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
"One thing that became pretty evident was how many artists really anthropomorphize the skyscraper, " says Michael Darling, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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"During periods of explosive wealth and growth of resources within the private sector, the enormous surplus of wealth gravitates toward art, " observes Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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He is also the chief curator of the "House of Slaves, " built by the Dutch in 1776, and is the last slave house remaining on the island and Coly has painstakingly preserved its history.
Last year, when the Museum of Modern Art appointed Quentin Bajac to be its new chief curator of photography, only a few New Yorkers knew much about the 47-year-old Frenchman except that his credentials were impeccable.
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"He felt he was actually cutting into the color itself as he made these pictures, " says John Elderfield, an art historian, chief curator emeritus at the Museum of Modern Art and consultant to the Gagosian Gallery.
The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
Mr. DAVID SCHWARTZ (Chief Curator, Museum of the Moving Image): What Disney did that was really important was he teamed up with the scientist Wernher von Braun, who was really the most prominent scientist of the United States and was trying to promote the idea of space travel.
In the gallery's audio guide, chief curator John Somerville explains how the work was purchased from the artist by Ferdinand Philip, the sixth Prince Lobkowicz of Bohemia, while he was in London buying horses -- and carrying on a scandalous affair with the wife of the Venetian ambassador.
The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Created by Sharon Matt Atkins, the museum's managing curator of exhibitions, and Shelley Bernstein, its chief of technology, "GO" was modeled after ArtPrize, the annual event in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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