Saturday, August 11, 2012

First China-based curator hired by an American art museum


The Eli And Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has hired Beijing-based critic and curator Wang Chunchen as an adjunct curator, making him the first China-based curator hired at an American art museum. While other Chinese curators and scholars have held prominent positions in the US - for example, Hou Hanru was formerly director of exhibitions and chair of museum studies at the San Francisco Art Institute - Wang Chunchen's continuing residence in China sets him apart.
Image: Wang Chunchen is the department head of the curatorial research department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and author of Art Intervenes - A New Artistic Relationship