Gary Tinterow’s Agenda for Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum – Part One of Interview

Gary Tinterow, the chief curator of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum, discusses collection sharing, acquiring art from Latin America, renovation of the Wallace Wing, negotiations to lease the Whitney’s Breuer building, and more.

Gary Tinterow’s Contemporary Art Agenda for the Metropolitan Museum

Gary Tinterow, the chief curator of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum, discusses collection sharing, acquiring art from Latin America, renovation of the Wallace Wing, negotiations to lease the Whitney’s Breuer building, and more.

Roxy Paine’s Metal Trees Are Flourishing

Artist Roxy Paine will have an exhibition of a new Dendroid sculpture at James Cohan Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea district this fall, and other artworks from the series have been purchased for as much as $1 million by the Israel Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Munich RE, and Sweden’s Wanås Foundation. His huge work seen at the Metropolitan Museum last year has not been sold.