Carlos Basualdo
Visiting Lecturer
31 January 2007, 7:30pm

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A Spectacular Time? A New Temporality for Museums and Exhibitions of Their Permanent Collections

Carlos Basualdo is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and an Adjunct Professor at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy. He served as a member of the 2002 curatorial team of Documenta 11 in Kassel, was the Director of the International Program at Apex Art Curatorial Program in New York City, and was a co-founder (with Hans Ulrich Obrist) of the Union of the Imaginary, an online forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to curatorial practice. He is a regular contributor to Artforum and Artnexus and a member of the editorial board of Atlántica and ARCO Noticias. Basualdo curated Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture recently on view at the Bronx Museum, New York.