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Jenny is Director Emeritus of the Noguchi Museum where she served as Director for 15 years until 2018 when she retired. In her first job, she met Noguchi while serving as Director of the Public Art Fund (PAF) . He was among numerous artists whom she worked with to realize respective projects in New York City’s public spaces. Moving on from PAF she went on to run the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, (LMCC) and the Bronx Museum. She currently serves on a number of Boards and is engaged in making ceramics.
Michael Klein is a private dealer and freelance and independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. He is a highly regarded writer, curator, and program director. He served as the first in house Curator for the Microsoft Art Collection based in Redmond, Washington between 1999 and 2006 directing art acquisitions, commissions, collection management in house exhibitions and an education program for the company’s 50,000 employees.
and has been the executive director of the International Sculpture Center based in New Jersey. Klein has been a regular contributor to Sculpture Magazine in addition to writing reviews and feature articles for Art in America, ARTnews, Artnet and www.theartsection.com, among others. He has presented public lectures across the US and
has served as adjunct faculty to New York University in New York as well as other universities and colleges.
His first curatorial projects were with the Williams College Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN where he help develop and organize a wide range of contemporary and modern art exhibitions.
Between 1983 and 1997 he was owner of Michael Klein Gallery, New York representing some 20 emerging and mid career American and European artists.
Website: www.michaelkleinarts.com
Modus Vivendi, 1986 polaroid each 84 x 30 inches collection Akron Art Museum