Foto Fest
FOTOFEST 2010 BIENNIAL
Curatorial Forums

Symposium on Contemporary Curatorial Practice

 


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Sunday, March 28, 2010, 2 - 5pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005


Panelists:

Anne Wilkes Tucker
Speaking on the history of curating photography.

Gilbert Vicario
Addressing the curating of photography in the context of contemporary art  

Charlotte Cotton
Speaking about the evolution of her own career in the U.K. and the U.S. as well as the interaction between public programming and curatorial practice in museums.  

Daniel Joseph Martinez
Confronting curatorial practice as an artist and analyzing contemporary curatorial perspectives.


This Symposium was presented as part of a series of Curatorial Forums that FotoFest initiated for the FotoFest 2010 Biennial. FotoFest Artistic Director Wendy Watriss introduced the Symposium panel.

Following the panel there was a reception and book signings by Charlotte Cotton and Daniel Joseph Martinez in the lobby of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, next to the exhibition Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection.


For more information call or e-mail:
Jennifer Ward, 713.223.5522 x 18 or exhibits@fotofest.org