{"id":6246,"date":"2017-05-17T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2018-05-20T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T02:10:40","slug":"britt-salvesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/britt-salvesen\/","title":{"rendered":"Britt Salvesen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4927\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6246-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BrittSalvesen.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BrittSalvesen.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BrittSalvesen.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_6250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6250\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6250 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=768%2C1151&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=696%2C1043&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=1068%2C1601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_03_16-LACMA-Mapplethorpe-Opening_ZL_0802.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Zach Lipp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Britt Salvesen joined LACMA in October 2009 as curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department. Previously, she was director and chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her PhD from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Among the exhibitions Salvesen has curated at LACMA are\u00a0<i>New Topographics<\/i>\u00a0(2009);\u00a0<i>Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape<\/i>\u00a0(2010);\u00a0<i>Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa\u2014Art and Film<\/i>\u00a0(2013);\u00a0<i>See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition\u00a0<\/i>(2013);\u00a0<i>Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s<\/i>\u00a0(2014);\u00a0<i>Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium<\/i>\u00a0(2016), winner, with Paul Martineau, of a Lucie Award and a Global Fine Art Award; and\u00a0<i>Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters\u00a0<\/i>(2016).<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Salvesen was named one of the year&#8217;s most influential curators by Artsy and received an award for curator of the year from the Los Angeles Art Show.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, the current exhibitions that were discussed were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/art\/exhibition\/moholy-nagy-future-present\">Moholy-Nagy<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/art\/exhibition\/dwan-gallery\">Virginia Dwan Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>The books mentioned at the end of the interview was by Oliver Sacks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliversacks.com\/books-by-oliver-sacks\/the-minds-eye\/\">The Mind&#8217;s Eye<\/a> as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/the-end-of-cinema\/9780231173575\">The End of Cinema<\/a> by\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Gaudreault and Philippe Marion.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>More information can be researched\u00a0about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/councils\/LENS-photography-council\">Prints and Drawings Council<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacma.org\/councils\/LENS-photography-council\">LENS Photography Council<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6251\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6251 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=640%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=1024%2C643&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=696%2C437&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=1068%2C670&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?resize=669%2C420&amp;ssl=1 669w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/EX8089_Robert_Mapplethorpe-The_Perfect_Medium_047.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation photo of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (March 20 &#8211; July 31, 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6252\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6252 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=640%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=1068%2C1602&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-0531.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation photo featuring Mike Hill&#8217;s (2012) in the exhibition Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), August 1, 2016 &#8211; November 27, 2016. \u00a9 Mike Hill, Photo \u00a9 Museum Associates\/ LACMA, by Josh White\/ JWPictures.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/BrittSalvesen.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBritt Salvesen joined LACMA in October 2009 as curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department. 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