Contemporary Art Museum

Challenging Traditional Art: British Artist Jeremy Deller's Work On View At CAM

Erin Williams — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:52:19 +0000

When British conceptual artist Jeremy Deller chose to stage his first private exhibition back in 1993, he decided to go with a small, intimate setting he knew well: his bedroom.

“It wasn’t so full of people, but I didn’t want it to be full of people,” he says of Open Bedroom, which was by invitation only. “I was terrified that someone would put a cigarette end out on a table or a carpet or something.”

Thelma Golden On Arts, Race And Culture

Alex Heuer, Mary Edwards, Don Marsh and Erin Williams — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:39:49 +0000

Thelma Golden is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Through art, Golden says, people can have a dialogue about race and culture.

This year, Golden is part of the Contemporary Art Museum’s Susan Sherman Annual Distinguished Speaker Series.

Host Don Marsh and St. Louis Public Radio fellowship producer Erin Williams talk with Thelma Golden about her career and work.

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Ha leaving CAM, headed to post at MIT

Kelsey Proud — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:36:41 +0000

The official word is out today from the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis - director Paul Ha is headed out of town.

Ha has been offered the position of director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) List Center for the Visual Arts and is expected to begin his new position Dec. 1.

According to CAM, Ha raised an aggregate of over $40 million during his tenure and created the institution's first endowment, in the amount of $5 million.