Susan Mullin Vogel
Susan Mullin Vogel | |
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Occupation(s) | Curator, Filmmaker, Professor, Scholar |
Years active | 1966 or 1967 to present |
Susan Mullin Vogel is a curator, professor, scholar, and filmmaker whose area of focus is African art.[1] She was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded what is now The Africa Center in the early 1980s, served as Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, taught African art and architecture at Columbia University, and has made films.[2][3][4]
Early life
Susan Vogel was born in
Professional career
After her return to the United States in 1966, having "fallen in love with the place and with the art" in Cote d'Ivoire, Vogel worked at the
In 1984, in New York City, she founded the Center for African Art, later the Museum for African Art (and now the Africa Center). While running that museum for ten years, she curated a number of widely praised exhibitions and wrote, co-wrote or published accompanying books.
In 1994, she was named as Director of the Yale Art Gallery.
Vogel won the 1998
In 2004, she was appointed Professor of African art and architecture at Columbia.[14]
Following her career as an art museum leader, Vogel spent two years as a graduate film student at New York University, and became a documentary filmmaker.[14]
Personal life
Vogel has lived for long periods of time in
Works
Books
- African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise (1980) (exhibition catalog)
- The Buli Master, and Other Hands (1980) (short)
- African Masterpieces from The Musee de l'Homme (1985) (with Francine N'Diaye)
- African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collection (1986) (co-author)
- Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections (1988) (editor, introduction)
- Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art (1991)
- Exhibition-ism: Museums and African Art (1994) (co-author)
- Baule: African Art Western Eyes (1997)
- El Anatsui: Art and Life (2012, 2nd ed. 2020)
Films
- Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today (2003)
- Fang: An Epic Journey (2003) (short)
- Malick Sidibe: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist (2006) (short)[18]
- Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne (2007)[19]
- Anatsui at Work: Eight Shorts for Museums and Classrooms (2011)
- Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui (2011)
Selected articles
- "People of Wood: Baule Figure Sculpture," Art Journal, vol. 33, No. 1 (1973)[20]
- "Art and Politics: A Staff from the Court of Benin, West Africa," Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 13 (1978)[21]
- "Bringing African Art to the Metropolitan Museum," African Arts, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Feb. 1982)[22]
- "Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory," African Arts, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1989)[23]
- "Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion," Chapter 13 of Karp, Ivan; Lavine, Steven D., eds. (1991). Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 9781560980216.
- "Baule: African Art Western Eyes," African Arts, Vol. 30, No. 4 (1997)[24]
- "Whither African Art? Emerging Scholarship at the End of an Age," African Arts, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2005) [25]
References
- ^ Worth, Alexi (19 February 2009). "El Anatsui (Published 2009)". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (18 September 2018). "Mary Nooter Roberts, Champion of African Art, Is Dead at 58 (Published 2018)". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Petersen, Kelsey L. "Intervening the Canon: Susan Vogel and the Museum for African Art - ProQuest". ProQuest. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Park Avenue Armory gets a new weapon in its arsenal". Crain's New York Business. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ a b Reif, Rita (7 February 1993). "ARTS/ARTIFACTS; For African Art Treasures, a Place to Spread Out". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ a b Rule, Sheila (17 August 1994). "The Yale Art Gallery Names a New Director". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- S2CID 194535387. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Tauer, Kristen (6 November 2020). "Inside John Edmonds' Solo Exhibit 'A Sidelong Glance' at Brooklyn Museum". WWD. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Dykstra, Jean (14 December 2020). "John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-58839-190-2. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- S2CID 214374948. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- JSTOR 43488693. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Art history event tackles race and museums". Mountain Democrat. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ a b "The Films of Susan Vogel". First Run Icarus Films. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ "Susan Vogel". www.susan-vogel.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- S2CID 57569620. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Professor Kenneth Prewitt". Staff Directory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ "Icarus Films: Malick Sidibé". Icarus Films. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ "Icarus Films: Future of Mud". Icarus Films. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- JSTOR 775667. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- S2CID 155849155. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- JSTOR 3335964. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- JSTOR 3336722. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- JSTOR 3337555. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- JSTOR 20447729. Retrieved 12 March 2021.