John Elderfield, Matisse

On the occasion of Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 – 1917 at the MoMA (July 18 – October 11, 2010), John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, who co-organized the exhibition with Stephanie D’Alessandro, Gary C. and Frances Comer, Curator of Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, stopped by the Clocktower Gallery to talk with Brooklyn Rail publisher, Phong Bui, about the exhibit. An illustrated transcript of this conversation, which covers a lot of delicious historical context, can be found online at the Brooklyn Rail website (75 minutes).

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