Artist-Curators and Art Historian-Curators at the Edge:
How the “Modern West” Revealed Boundaries of Curatorial Practice
by Austen Barron Bailly
© 2007
About the Author:
Austen Barron Bailly is assistant curator of American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of California , Santa Barbara . Her dissertation, “Painting the American Historical Epic : Thomas Hart Benton and Race, 1919-1936,” is in progress.