Talk:Nancy Spector

Dates, please

When did Spector become curator of the NY museum? -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:00, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks. When was she promoted to deputy director and chief curator? -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:12, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Controversy part

The controversy part used to be like:

On 5th November 2019, Spector hosted a panel for an exhibition in the Guggenheim called "Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story". This panel excluded Chaédria LaBouvier, the curator of the exhibition. LaBouvier had previously complained that the museum had made decisions for her exhibition without her consultation. She was also excluded from the deinstallation process, which is standard for curators to oversee. When LaBouvier raised this issue during the panel, Elizabeth Duggal, President of the Guggenheim Museum, said: "...I know you want to do this in a public forum, happy to talk separately..." and defended the decision by saying that the panel had acknowledged her efforts. A 2020 independent investigation by an outside law firm, initiated by the museum, found no evidence of discrimination towards LaBouvier.

I corrected the facts and removed a part of Duggal's comment (what has it to do with Spector's biography?). The part is now like this:

On 5th November 2019, the Guggenheim Museum presented a panel entitled, “New Art Histories for Some Kind of Tomorrow”. The panel was moderated by art historian, J. Faith Almiron. The panel explored shifting fault lines in art history and emergent forms of cultural criticism. It was held on the occasion of four overlapping exhibitions overseen by Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator:

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection; Simone Leigh: Loophole of Retreat; Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now (Parts 1 and 2); and Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story,

which collectively featured a number of artists and guest curators of color that was unprecedented in the museum’s history. According to Chaédria LaBouvier, the guest curator of the Basquiat show, the panel excluded her – a complaint she also raised from the audience during the panel. LaBouvier had previously complained that the museum had made decisions for her exhibition without her consultation. According to her she was also excluded from the deinstallation process, which is standard for curators to oversee. On 2020 an independent investigation by an outside law firm sought by the museum, found no evidence of discrimination against LaBouvier.

I think this part takes too much room on Spector's article. She has a long career and as there is no evidence of discrimination against LaBouvier could we remove the part completely? If we want to keep the text it should be added to LaBouvier's article as it is telling more about her than about Spector.Jjanhone (talk) 19:49, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

No comments in several months, so I removed the text above. It was taking a lot of space in the article, being longer than the career part, even though the case has little to do with Spector. There were no evidence found for the case either. If this case is seen important, could it be mentioned on LaBouvier's article or on the museum's article in stead?Jjanhone (talk) 06:34, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Select bibliography

Here's a list of missing items from the bibliography. As the title says "select", how to select which one of these are added? Jjanhone (talk) 05:42, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

• Spector, Nancy, “Rauschenberg and Performance, 1963-67: A ‘Poetry of Infinite Possibilities,’” in Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1997).
• Spector, Nancy "Performing the Body in the 1970s," Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography (New York: Guggenheim Museum , 1997)
• Spector, Nancy, “This is all True, contradictory, if not hysterical: An Interview with Douglas Gordon,” in Art from the UK (Munich: Sammlung Goetz, 1997)
• Spector, Nancy, “Roni Horn: Picturing Place in Roni Horn: Events of Relation (Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1999)
• Spector, Nancy “Slumber: A Fairy Tale,” in Janine Antoni (Küsnacht: Inke Tree Edition, 2000)
• Spector, Nancy, ed. Sugimoto: Portraits (New York: Guggenheim Museum 2000)
• Spector, Nancy, “a.k.a.,” Douglas Gordon (Cambridge, Mass. and Los Angeles: MIT Press and Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001)
• Spector, Nancy, “The Fiction of Fiction: An Exquisite Unease” in Anna Gaskell (New York: Powerhouse Books, 2002)
• Spector, Nancy. “Fifteen Minutes is No Longer Enough,” Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection (New York: The New Museum, 2010), reprinted from Monument to Now (Athens: Deste Foundation, 2004)
• Spector, Nancy, “Suddenly this Overview,” in Fischli and Weiss (London: Tate Modern, 2006)
• Spector, Nancy. All in the future must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2006)
• Spector, Nancy,“Tino Sehgal: This is Not an Object,” Hugo Boss Prize: 2006 (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2006)
• Nancy Spector, ed.Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America. United States Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2007.
• Spector, Nancy “After the End,” in Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Film, and Performance (New York: Guggenheim Museum 2010)
• Spector, Nancy, “Seven Easy Pieces,” Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010)
• Spector, Nancy, Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2012)
• Spector, Nancy, ed. Peter Fischli and David Weiss: How to Work Better (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2015)
• Spector, Nancy,“Resentment Demands a Story: Passage dangereux” in Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 2015)
• Spector, Nancy, “Introduction,” Matthew Barney: Otto Trilogy (New York: Gladstone Gallery, 2016)
• Spector, Nancy, “Mona Hatoum” Mona Hatoum (London: Phaidon Press, 2016)
• Spector, Nancy, ed. Guggenheim Museum Collection A-Z (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2019) Fourth, revised edition.

Fixed with Nancy herself.Jjanhone (talk) 15:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Paid contributions tag

A paid editor made contributions to this article, and has disclosed that fact on this page, therefore the paid contributions template is a matter of fact and does not require discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:39, 21 March 2021 (UTC)