Looking Forward to Fun; Art Museum's Curator Shares Contemporary Vision
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › June 19, 2005
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If any one person has the power to dramatically change the way Milwaukeeans see and think about art, it is Joseph D. Ketner II, the new chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He will shape the artistic identity of the city's most important art institution and is perhaps the most accomplished and well-connected curator the city has seen in a very long time, if ever.
He comes to a museum that has for a decade been through a rather harrowing birthing process, bringing the now world-acclaimed Santiago Calatrava-designed expansion into being, an instantaneously recognizable symbol of the city. The museum itself was reborn as an entirely different kind of entity still largely undefined.See the full content of this document
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Looking Forward to Fun; Art Museum's Curator Shares Contemporary Vision
Ketner, perhaps even more than David Gordon, the museum's director, has the power to define the essence of what the museum is by determining what art will be shown. A specialist in modern and contemporary art, he came to Milwaukee from a post as the director of The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., one of New England's premier institutions for modern and contemporary art.
Though clearly a serious and intellectual sort, whose ideas are laced with strains of philosophy, he often uses one word to describe what the museum will be under his leadership: Fun.His first planned show is sure evidence that he means it. In January, the museum will present a vi...See the full content of this document
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