Ann Temkin was born on December 26,1959 and is the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
10 Facts About Ann Temkin
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Ann Temkin then joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art, first as Assistant Curator and then the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Twentieth Century Art.
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Ann Temkin commissioned new works by artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Hamilton, and Gabriel Orozco for the "Museum Studies" series.
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In 2008, Ann Temkin became the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
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Ann Temkin initiated the reimagining of the Museum's collection galleries, transforming them from medium-specific spaces into integrated presentations that are fluid rather than fixed, and offer multiple points of view rather than one canonical narrative.
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Ann Temkin has focused on reshaping the acquisitions program of the Painting and Sculpture Department, dramatically expanding the breadth of the collection.
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Ann Temkin is currently preparing a multi-authored anthology of essays about the first generation of women at MoMA.
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Ann Temkin is married to Wayne Hendrickson, a biophysicist at Columbia University.
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Ann Temkin has a daughter, Rachel, and two stepdaughters, Helen and Inga.
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Ann Temkin is the author or co-author of several books, including:.