Monumenta at 50

Dr. Hugh M. Davies

Hugh M. Davies is recognized internationally as a scholar in the field of contemporary and modern art. Davies served from 1983 to 2016 as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and was named Director Emeritus by the museum’s trustees in 2016. While directing artistic and administrative activities of MCASD, Davies curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions including Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface (2011-2012); Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries (2007); Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953 (1999); and William Kentridge: Weighing … and Wanting (1998).

Davies was one of six co-curators who organized the Biennial 2000 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in 1976 he served as Director of the U.S. Exhibition at the 37th Venice Biennale. From 1975 to 1983 he was the founding director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the University Gallery) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and from 1984 through 2016 he was a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, a Trustee from 1994-2001 and President from 1997-1998.

Davies served as a member of the Francis Bacon Authentication Committee, which published the artist’s Catalogue Raisonne in 2016. His doctoral dissertation on Francis Bacon was later expanded and published by Garland Press, and he has subsequently published extensively on Bacon’s work. Davies received his A.B., summa cum laude, (1970), M.F.A. (1972), and Ph.D. (1976) from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University

Nancy Rosen

Nancy Rosen has an academic background in Art History and Museum Studies (Goucher College, B.A., Brown University, M.A.) including study and research in Florence and Rome. Early in her career, she co-organized three influential exhibitions that explored and expanded on the accepted boundaries of art and context: Documenta VI, the international exhibition in Kassel, Germany; Projects in Nature, which featured works of 11 artists created over the course of a year on a rural site in New Jersey; and Monumenta. These early projects afforded Rosen the opportunity to focus on major examples of 20th-century sculpture and to shepherd younger and more experimental artists as they created new, site-focused works.

She has published and lectured on topics relating to art in the public realm and participated in numerous panel discussions exploring this territory. Rosen also collaborated on several films with her husband, the documentary filmmaker Michael Blackwood: Masters of Modern Sculpture; 14 Americans, Directions of the 1970s; Artpark People; and Christo’s Running Fence.

In 1980 she founded her own office, Nancy Rosen Incorporated, to focus on planning, implementing, and managing public art initiatives and fine art collections. Clients include individual collectors, foundations, academic and not-for-profit institutions, public agencies, professional firms and corporations.

Rosen has had a long relationship with Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies. She is presently curating a program of site-specific installations the London MIthraeum-Bloomberg Space, as well as several Art + Architecture initiatives for new capital projects in Washington and Baltimore for Johns Hopkins University.

Jonathan D. Lippincott

Jonathan D. Lippincott began his publishing career in 1994 at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he rose to design manager. His family's business, Lippincott Sculpture, fabricated for the sculptors many of the works featured in Monumenta. He now works independently as an art director, designer and packager on a range of illustrated books about fine art, architecture, landscape and design.

He is the author of two books, the monograph Robert Murray: Sculpture and Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He has written about art for The Paris Review Daily, On-Verge and Tether: A Journal of Art, Literature, and Culture. He has curated shows including Chromatic Space, the 80th-anniversary exhibition for American Abstract Artists, at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center in New York City, and Celestial and Terrestrial at the New Arts Program in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

Dodie Kazanjian

Born and raised in Newport, Dodie Kazanjian has covered and written about artists and the art world for Vogue since 1989. She is the founding director of Gallery Met, the non-profit contemporary art space at the Metropolitan Opera, and also of Art&Newport. Her books include Icons: The Absolutes of Style, Dodie Goes Shopping and Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, co-authored with her husband, Calvin Tomkins. From 1981 to 1983, she was Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House. She left to join the National Endowment for the Arts, where she started a quarterly magazine called ArtsReview. At the same time, she served as Washington Editor of House & Garden. She lives in New York City.