Before the current exhibition of her work at the Milstein Center, Professor Kadambari Baxi mounted “Trigger Planting” at the Frieze New York art fair
What goes into building a museum collection? From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, six alums in the curatorial field share with us the objects in their institutions' collections that have special significance to them — and why they matter personally, culturally, and to the scholarship of art history.
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Stephanie Barron ’72
Senior Curator and Department Head, Modern Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Carla Acevedo-Yates ’00
Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Andrea Myers Achi ’07
Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art
Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jessica May ’99
Managing Director, Art and Exhibitions and Artistic Director
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Lincoln, Massachusetts
Jessica S. Hong ’09
Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Makeda Best ’97
Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs
Oakland Museum of California