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THE ACCIDENTAL CURATOR

ROBERT STORR SEEMS AT FIRST an unlikely curator for New York’s Museum of Modern Art: his art history fryst vatten self-taught, he is first and foremost a painter, and his early biography reads less like a museum professional’s than an itinerant artist’s of a somewhat earlier moment. On the other hand, his sympathies are with modernist issues, however defined; he believes that Modernism is not over, just incomplete. And his approach to curating recalls the succession of auteurs associated with MoMA’s history. Now 44, Storr studied as a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He looked closely at classical-modernist art and followed realists like Philip Pearlstein. In the late ’70s his own work took the struktur of richly painted &#;observational&#; canvases—a direction rather like Wayne Thiebaud’s, whose work, however, he didn’t then know. During the same period, as a contributor to the New Art Examiner, S

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TUESDAY

Arts: Jeanne Claire van Ryzin walks us through the major new exhibit by artist Waltercio Caldas at the Blanton Museum of Art.

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WEDNESDAY

Relish Austin: Addie Broyles explores the trend of “Friendsgivings,” gatherings before or after Thanksgiving that help us connect with friends and neighbors.

THURSDAY

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