Student curators Eva Goldstein-Moore and Hisaka Marubayashi with a 1923 print by Max Beckmann.
Lessons from an
exhibition By Glen Helfand hat happens when cur r ent art history
students are directed to curate an exhibition at the Mills College Art Museum? For five Mills women in the museum studies workshop course last fall, the result was Anxious States: Expressionism from Gauguin to Oliveira, a modest yet powerful show that, as Museum Director Stephanie Hanor writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalog, “can be read as political as well as emotional reactions to a rapidly changing world.”
PHOTO BY DANA DAV IS
SPRING 2018
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