Sun 1/21 @ 3-4PM
For more than 25 years Barbara Tannenbaum headed the curatorial team at the Akron Art Museum and was responsible for building that museum’s photography collection into the major asset it is today. She also oversaw its Knight Photography Purchase Prize which added works by major contemporary photo and video artists to that collection. So it was no surprise that the Cleveland Museum of Art snagged her to replace curator of photography Tom Hinson when he retired in 2011. She’s curated countless intriguing exhibitions and overseen a flood of acquisitions there, making up for lost time: CMA didn’t have a photography department until 1996.
You can hear more from Barbara herself when she speaks about at the Fairmount Center for the Arts as part of its Pull Back the Curtain series. Her presentation, “Long Shot or Up Close: Collecting Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art,” will look at how photography became collectible with explosive growth in the 1980s, after decades in which it was considered an esoteric art form with limited interest, which many didn’t even consider art.
The talk is free and open to all.
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Novelty, OH 44072