Zelevansky, Lynn
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Birth Date
- 1947
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1986
- Affiliation End: 1995
- Organization: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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- Affiliation Start: 1995
- Affiliation End: 2009
- Organization: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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- Affiliation Start: 2009
- Affiliation End: 2017
- Organization: Carnegie Museum of Art
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- English
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- found: Picasso and Braque, a symposium, c1992:t.p. (Lynn Zelevansky)
- found: LC data base, 8-20-92(hdg.: Zelevansky, Lynn)
- found: artdaily.com, via WWW, October 7, 2016(Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Lynn Zelevansky has been named the Henry J. Heinz II director of Carnegie Museum of Art. Zelevansky is currently the Terri and Michael Smooke curator and department head of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A writer, art professor, and curator, for the past 14 years Zelevansky has focused her considerable energies on her work as a curator of modern and contemporary art at LACMA, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, including the award-winning Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s to 1970s. Prior to her work at LACMA, she spent seven years in the department of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where, among many other exhibitions, she worked with curator William Rubin on the much-lauded Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism) - http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=30627&int_modo=2#.V_gT5fkrLmE
- found: Wikipedia web site, December 10, 2018:(Lynn Zelevansky (born 1947) is an American art historian and curator. Formerly Henry Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, she is currently based in New York City. Zelevansky was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ; Pratt Institute, where she graduated with a BFA in Photography in 1971 ; In 1984 ... she began the graduate program at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, earning her MA in 1987, and later completing coursework towards her doctorate ; In 1986, Zelevansky joined MoMA's Department of Painting and Sculpture as a curatorial assistant and remained there until 1995 ; In 1995 Zelevansky became Assistant Curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; In 2009, Zelevansky became Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, where she remained until the end of 2017) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Zelevansky
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- 1992-08-20: new
- 2018-12-12: revised
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