
Bruce J. Altshuler
Clinical Prof Of Museum Studies, Dir Museum Studies
History of exhibitions, history of museums, modern and contemporary art.
Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship, 2010
Sir Banister Fletcher Award, 2009
ACLS Study Fellowship, 1980-81
“The Art Market and Exhibitions of the Avant-Garde,” in Cristina Baldacci, Clarissa Ricci, and Angela Vettese, eds., Double Trouble in Exhibiting the Contemporary: Art Fairs and Shows (Milan: Scalpendi Editore, 2020)
“Innovating Sites,” in Paula Marincola, ed., Site Read: Seven Curators on their Landmark Exhibitions (Mousse Publishing and The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, 2019)
“The Times Square Show,” Mousse Magazine, 61, December 2017
“Tate Modern: a museum for our times”, The Art Newspaper, June 15, 2016
“The Met gets a second chance to get contemporary art right”, The Art Newspaper, April 2016
“Collections, Audience, and Enlightenment,” in Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage, eds., Museums of the World: Towards a New Understanding of a Historical Institution (Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2015)
“Exhibitions Take Center Stage,” Art in America, June/July 2013
Biennials and Beyond; Exhibitions that Made Art History, 1962-2002 (Phaidon Press, 2013)
"A Canon of Exhibitions," MJ - Manifesta Journal, No. 11, Spring/Summer 2011.
"Threads of Chance and Intention," in Iwona Blazwick, ed., A Manual for the 21st Century Art Institution (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2009)
Salon to Biennial -- Exhibitions That Made Art History, Volume I: 1863-1959 (Phaidon Press Inc., 2008)
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), editor.
"'Once an Oriental Always an Oriental': The American Display and Reception of Noguchi's Ceramics," in Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics, ex. cat. (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2003).
"Isamu Noguchi Indoors: Home Furnishings and Interior Design," in Isamu Noguchi Sculptural Design. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum. 2001.
"Instructions for a World of Stickiness: The Early Conceptual Work of Yoko Ono," in Yes. Yoko Ono. New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams. 2000.
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1994. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998.
"Art by Instruction and the Pre-History of do it," in do it. New York: Independent Curators Incorporated. 1997.
“Adrian Piper: Ideas into Art,” Art Journal, Winter 1997
“The Pranksters of Paris,” Art in America, February 1997
"'The Modern World is Our Business': The Carnegie International in the Gordon Bailey Washburn Years, 1950-1962," in International Encounters: The Carnegie International and Contemporary Art, 1896-1996. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art. 1996.
"Buckminster Fuller: Three Urban Projects," in Sites & Stations: Provisional Utopias. New York: Lusitania Books. 1996.
Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press. 1994.
Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations. Co-editor. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1994.
“The Cage Class," in FluxAttitudes. Ghent: Imschoot Uitgevers. 1991.
Courses:
Art Exhibitions After 1960 (MSMS-GA 3330)
Museums and Contemporary Art (MSMS-GA 3335)
Research in Museum Studies (MSMS-GA 3915)
Contact Information
Bruce J. Altshuler
Clinical Prof Of Museum Studies, Dir Museum Studies bruce.altshuler@nyu.edu Program in Museum Studies, GSAS240 Greene Street
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New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8087