 | Robert Storr |
Distinguished curator and artist Robert Storr, the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, has been appointed the dean of the School of Art for a five-year period beginning July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.
Storr is also consulting curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will be the commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. From 1990 to 2002 he was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), stepping down as senior curator in 2002.
"Professor Storr's accomplishments span the art world," Levin commented, noting that the dean-designate is a painter, art historian and critic as well as a prodigious writer about the theory and practice of art.
Members of the Yale community are invited to meet the new dean at a reception being held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 29, in Rm. 104 of Holcombe Green Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel St.
Storr has been the curator of scores of exhibitions at the MoMA and elsewhere, and the author of dozens of monographs and catalogues. At the MoMA, he curated major exhibitions on the work of Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith and Robert Ryman. From 1990 to 2000, he was the coordinator of "Projects," a series of exhibitions devoted to the work of contemporary artists. He also organized a number of reinstallations of MoMA's permanent collection, covering such topics as abstraction and the modern grotesque.
In addition to many other exhibitions around the nation and in Europe for which he has written dozens of brochures and catalogs, Storr is the author of "Philip Guston" (Abbeville, 1986), "Chuck Close" (with Lisa Lyons, Rizzoli, 1987) and the forthcoming "Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois."
As contributing editor at Art in America since 1981, Storr has written articles on Sigmar Polke, Elizabeth Murray, Francesco Clemente, Brice Marden, Leon Golub and Yvonne Rainer, among others, and his articles on the problems of public art, criticism and the global art community have appeared there since 1982. He is also a contributing editor to Grand Street. He writes frequently for Artforum and Parkett. Since 1982 he has also been a regular contributor to Art Press (Paris) and currently writes a bi-monthly column for Frieze (London). In addition, his criticism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Arts Magazine, Art & Design, Tate/The Art Magazine, Interview, Galleries Magazine and other publications. A member of the editorial board of the College Art Association's Art Journal from 1985 to 1995, he co-edited two issues of the magazine devoted to censorship in the arts.
Storr's paintings have been exhibited in group shows in New York at the Betty Cunningham Gallery, the Andre Zarre Gallery, the Jack Tilton Gallery and the New York Studio School, and his work is in the collections of the Nelson Atkins Museum and MoMA.
Storr received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He is a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad, and has taught painting, drawing, art history and criticism at numerous colleges and art schools, including Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler Art School, the New York Studio School and Harvard University. For a number of years, he has taught at The City University of New York Graduate Center and at The Bard Center for Curatorial Studies.
Storr's wife, Rosamund Morley, is an accomplished musician. She is a long-standing member of the Waverly Consort and has played viola da gamba, violone and vielle worldwide. In addition to her work in New York's renowned consort of viols, Parthenia, with whom she plays contemporary as well as early music, she is a founding member of My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, specializing in Elizabethan music. A sought-after teacher, she teaches viol at Columbia University and is the director of the summer music course, Viols West, at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California.
"Rob Storr is deeply knit into the contemporary art world. Yale is exceptionally lucky to have someone of his wide-ranging gifts, accomplishment and cosmopolitan experience as its new dean," Levin said.
Speaking of Storr's "deep interest in educating the artists of the future," Levin added, "We look forward to his bringing his vision and energy to helping everyone at the School of Art sustain the school's traditional strengths, and nurture the school into its future."
Levin thanked the search committee that "surveyed the entire art world to find the very best candidate" to lead the School of Art. Citing their diligence and enthusiasm, Levin singled out the chair of the search committee, Tod Papageorge, for his excellent leadership, as well as committee members Sheila de Bretteville, Keller Easterling, Gary Haller, Peter Halley, Jock Reynolds, Barbara Shailor and Jessica Stockholder for their time and good judgment.
Levin closed his announcement by expressing gratitude for outgoing dean Richard "Chip" Benson, "a man who proved that a great artist can also be a great dean.
"Yale feels fortunate beyond measure to have had so many years of such an ideal steward," said Levin.
T H I S
Noted critic and artist Robert Storr
named next dean of School of Art
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