Curator, art historian, author

Joined March 2009
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Nancy Spector retweeted
A manifesto which lays out the past and catalyzes the future of Bitchcoin. A free mint at bitchcoin.vision developed with @Dminti_io @medici_xyz @DangerWillRobin @nespector ** can print out as poster **
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Proud to be participating in this important initiative.
In response to #COVID19, we're launching an Open Call for Art with top art curators including Art Director & Chief Curator for the Guggenheim @nespector, Artist & Activist @hankwthomas, and Artist & Activist @OBEYGIANT Submit work at bit.ly/globalopencall
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Nancy Spector retweeted
Quite a change from the Gugg’s great Hilma af Klint show but almost as good: an exhibition dense with less familiar names and works in which six artist-curators rethink the collection. As with Hilma, it rewards return visits. nytimes.com/2019/06/27/arts/… via ⁦@nytimes
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Super honored to be grouped with my heroes Roxane Gay and Nick Cave. Thanks @PrattInstitute
This year’s Commencement honorary degree recipients are Artist and Educator Nick Cave, Artistic Director and @Guggenheim Chief Curator Nancy Spector, and Author and Cultural Critic Roxane Gay, who will also be the keynote speaker: bit.ly/2uvPbLW #PrattGrad19
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Nancy Spector retweeted
hilma af klint @Guggenheim ... a MUST see. a little hope for humanity that it was crowded on a thursday. #HilmaafKlint (thx @nespector )
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In 1996, Okwui Enwezor co-curated the groundbreaking exhibition “In/Sight: African Photography 1940 to the Present” at the Guggenheim. We invited him to create this show to augment,… instagram.com/p/BvDQPogA4T9/…

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Nancy Spector retweeted
We at the Guggenheim are deeply saddened by the passing of #GuggeheimCollection artist Robert Morris, the subject of a major retrospective, “The Mind/Body Problem” in 1994. gu.gg/2Qyjmyq
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Grateful today for creative resistance and open dialogue. I’m especially thankful for Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, whose For Freedoms project took really essential art to the… instagram.com/p/BqfLd-1gSRM/…

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Chipping away at that GOP majority in the senate. Kyrsten Sinema just won her race in Arizona! Flipped Jeff Flake’s seat. (Remember, he was the one in the elevator during the Kavanaugh… instagram.com/p/BqGgzs1Ak-L/…

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Spotted in Chelsea. Advice from the art world. @ Marianne Boesky Gallery instagram.com/p/BpxfjnRgIGx/…

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Richard Prince’s High Times exhibition opened at Gagosian last night. It is great to see his amazing book collection integrated into this meditation on the liberating power of the 60s. The… instagram.com/p/BprSPu3glSC/…

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Musing on Hilma af Klint’s belief that the world’s major religions intersect and overlap, as she sought to express in these works on paper. Timeless and ever urgent. @ Solomon R.… instagram.com/p/BpiHulLguMO/…

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Crazy gorgeous sunrise in Brooklyn this morning, reflecting on the buildings in lower Manhattan. Happy Sunday. @ Brooklyn, New York instagram.com/p/Bo6U1rBADui/…

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The exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future just opened at the Guggenheim. We are thrilled to blow open the art historical canon by rewriting the history of Modernist… instagram.com/p/Bo4IJSbA1TZ/…

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R.H. Quaytman conquered the 6th ramp of the Guggenheim’s rotunda, choreographing a dance with Hilma af Klint and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come see the new chapter of work she created… instagram.com/p/Bo2JDrFg2db/…

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#ThisIs18. What would I tell my 18 year-old-self? Fight for your values, even if you feel like your own worst enemy most days. Don’t care what others may say or think about you. And be… instagram.com/p/Boy4zD9A_kA/…

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Since I didn’t know how to handle the rage at Kavanaugh’s confirmation, I decided it would be a good time to see the excellent “Soul of a Nation” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Here… instagram.com/p/Bom87v3AS-i/…

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