Tagged: Contemporary Art Museum

Cityscape
11:52 am
Fri February 15, 2013

Challenging Traditional Art: British Artist Jeremy Deller's Work On View At CAM

When British conceptual artist Jeremy Deller chose to stage his first private exhibition back in 1993, he decided to go with a small, intimate setting he knew well: his bedroom.

“It wasn’t so full of people, but I didn’t want it to be full of people,” he says of Open Bedroom, which was by invitation only. “I was terrified that someone would put a cigarette end out on a table or a carpet or something.”

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St. Louis on the Air
3:39 pm
Wed November 14, 2012

Thelma Golden On Arts, Race And Culture

Credit Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Thelma Golden

Thelma Golden is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Through art, Golden says, people can have a dialogue about race and culture.

This year, Golden is part of the Contemporary Art Museum’s Susan Sherman Annual Distinguished Speaker Series.

Host Don Marsh and St. Louis Public Radio fellowship producer Erin Williams talk with Thelma Golden about her career and work.

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
10:36 am
Mon September 12, 2011

Ha leaving CAM, headed to post at MIT

Credit (Courtesy Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)
Paul Ha, soon-to-be former director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and headed to MIT.

The official word is out today from the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis - director Paul Ha is headed out of town.

Ha has been offered the position of director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) List Center for the Visual Arts and is expected to begin his new position Dec. 1.

According to CAM, Ha raised an aggregate of over $40 million during his tenure and created the institution's first endowment, in the amount of $5 million.

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