A prolifically productive, artist, critic, and curator, Robert Storr has written articles, essays and books, including: Philip Guston, Elizabeth Murray, Gehardt Richter: Forty Years of Painting, and most recently, Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois. As a curator, and then senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, he organized numerous critically acclaimed thematic and monographic exhibitions. Having taught and lectured widely, he was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and Dean of the Yale School of Art in 2006 and named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean in 2014. Storr was the first American to serve as visual arts director of the Venice Biennale from 2005 to 2007, and among his many honors, he received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art.
Robert Storr's lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on April 5th in Richards Hall 15. Parking is available in the Stadium Drive Parking Garage on the corner of Stadium Drive and T Streets.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska; enhancing the education of our students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for the public to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.