Quotes by Thelma Golden

About Thelma Golden:

Thelma Golden is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, USA. Golden joined the Museum as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs in 2000 before succeeding Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, the Museum’s former Director and President, in 2005.
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I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Thelma Golden

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

Thelma Golden

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

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I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

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I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

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I'm a big Whole Foods fan.

Thelma Golden

The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.

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The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk a...

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Author Bio

  • NameThelma Golden
  • DescriptionAmerican curator
  • Born1966