Jane Livingston Explained

Jane Shelton Livingston (born 12 February 1944) is an American art curator. She is the author and co-author of numerous books and catalogs.

Life and work

Livingston was born in Upland, California.

From 1967 to 1975, she was curator of 20th-century art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was editor of the Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné and as of 2011 was working as an independent curator.[1]

In 1975 she became associate director and chief curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, but resigned in 1989, prompted by the Corcoran's cancellation of a show of work by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.[2] [3] Livingston had been on sabbatical, writing a book under a Guggenheim Fellowship when the exhibition was cancelled;[4] when she returned, she made it clear that she would not have cancelled the show.[5] Livingston had arranged the installation, which was financed in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).[6]

She organized a major museum exhibition of Chicano art,[7] and, together with Marcia Tucker, the first major museum exhibition of Bruce Nauman. Other exhibitions include her show of National Geographic, "illustrative" photography.[8] She and curator John Beardsley also curated an exhibition of black outsider artists in 1982.[9] This show "marked an explosion of interest in the work of African American artists."[10] Livingston's The New York School of Photography (1992) has been described as a "path-breaking study", first identifying the titular subject.[11] Livingston curated a show of John Alexander's works at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2008.[12]

Livingston's work on The Art of Richard Diebenkorn (1997) helped produce a book that collected the most important works of Richard Diebenkorn, who had been under-represented in publishing.[13] The catalogue raisonné she compiled on the artist appeared in 2016.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Modern Art in Los Angeles: Women Curators in Los Angeles. The Getty Research Institute. 2011 . 5 March 2016.
  2. News: Portrait of a curator: Life after the Corcoran . Lewis. Jo Ann. December 14, 1992. The Washington Post. March 5, 2016.
  3. Web site: Parachini. Allan. Chief Curator at Corcoran Resigns. Los Angeles Times. 5 March 2016.
  4. Web site: Chief Curator at Corcoran Resigns. L.A. Times. 17 November 2018.
  5. News: Corcoran Gallery's Longtime No. 2 Resigns. Lewis. Jo Ann. 14 September 1998. The Washington Post. 28 March 2016.
  6. News: Curator for Mapplethorpe Show Resigns Corcoran Posts. Gamarekian. Barbara. 14 September 1989. The New York Times. 28 March 2016.
  7. News: 30 Hispanic Artists at Brooklyn Museum. Kimmelman. Michael. 9 June 1989. The New York Times. 28 March 2016.
  8. News: The Magnificent 'Odyssey'; At the Corcoran, Geographic's World, Up Front & Up Close. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505051333/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1260680.html. dead. 5 May 2016. Richard. Paul. 4 June 1988. The Washington Post. 28 March 2016.
  9. News: 'A Return to January 1982' -- The Corcoran Show Revisited. Smith. Roberta. 8 March 2002. The New York Times. 28 March 2016.
  10. Amaki. Amalia K.. 2006. The Power of Color in the Art World. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505145527/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1126449261.html. dead. 2016-05-05. The Crisis. 28 March 2016.
  11. Deborah Dash . Moore . After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photographers. By Daniel Morris . review . American Jewish History . 97 . 1 . March 2013 . 93–94 . 10.1353/ajh.2011.0012.
  12. Breal. Jordan. May 2008. A Dark Visionary. Texas Monthly. 28 March 2016. GALE.
  13. Hurley. Patricia. June 1998. A Neglected Master. The Art Book. 5. 3. 11–12. 10.1111/1467-8357.00095.

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