ANN GOLDSTEIN RECEIVES THE 2012 CCS BARD AWARD FOR CURATORIAL EXCELLENCE

Ann Goldstein, general artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, is the fifteenth recipient of the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, for the first time given with the Audrey Irmas Prize of twenty-five thousand dollars. The award will be presented by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College on April 4 in New York City.

Goldstein’s curatorial career spans nearly thirty years, twenty-six of which were at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In a press release issued today by Bard, Goldstein is “noted for her expertise in the fields of Minimal and Conceptual art of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as her current practices. [She] has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to individual artists as well as argument-driven curatorial projects presenting some of the most significant group exhibitions of our time, including: ‘A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation,’ 1989, cocurated with Mary Jane Jacob; ‘1965–1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art,’ 1995, cocurated with Anne Rorimer; and ‘A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958–1968,’ 2004.”