10 Sep 2014

Calling Houston. A video-conference with Joe Houston at MACBA - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires

Calling Joe Houston!

Curator Joe Houston will video-chat with Teresa Riccardi, MACBA's Management Director, about his curatorial work, his ties with the museum's collection and its future itineration of the Global Exchange exhibition at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, in Miami.

Joe Houston is a curator and author who has organized numerous exhibitions on postwar and contemporary art, many with an emphasis on modes of abstraction. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Antonio Art Institute, and Northwestern university, from which he earned an MFA in painting and criticism. His publications include In Monet's Garden: The Lure of Giverny (Scala, 2007), Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s (Merrell, 2006), and Post-Digital Painting (Cantz, 2002). He has held curatorial positions at the Columbus Museum of Art in ohio, Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, rockford Art Museum in Illinois, and other institutions in the united States. He is currently curator of the Hallmark Art Collection in Kansas City, Missouri.