David Frankel is Editorial Director in the Department of Publications at The Museum of Modern Art. He is also a contributing editor for Artforum magazine where he was a senior editor for many years, and Aperture magazine. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Aperture, and elsewhere, and he has worked as a freelance writer and editor in various capacities for many museums and publishers in the United States and Europe. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.
During the last week of September, members of the C-MAP Latin America group traveled to Chile. This trip was part of a research focus on that country which, over the past year, has brought a number of artists, scholars, critics and curators to MoMA–all this in an effort to better understand the complexities of the…
The research project C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) is built upon research that happens both within and outside MoMA. In November 2012, a group of curators, educators, and editorial staff from MoMA spent ten days in Brazil. All through the preceding year, the C-MAP Latin America group had attended lectures, roundtables, and seminars on twentieth-century art…
