VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present an Artists/Scholars Talk: Bill Arning, Thursday, June 21, 2011,   6:30-7:30PM. Learn more about Perspectives 175: Marc Swanson: The Second Story with Bill Arning, CAMH Director and curator of the exhibition.

Bill Arning is the Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. At CAMH, he has organized the exhibitions Matthew Day Jackson: The Immeasurable Distance (2009) and, with João Ribas, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom (2011).

Arning was formerly the curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center for eight years where he organized such critically acclaimed exhibitions as America Starts Here - Ericson and Ziegler (2006), which was awarded first prize for best monographic show in a Boston museum by the International Association of Art Critics, New England Section for 2005-2006. Other exhibitions include Chantal Akerman's first American museum survey Moving Through Time and Space (2008) and Christian Jankowski - Everything Fell Together (2006).

As a writer on art and culture, Arning's essays have been published in Time Out New York, Aperture, Modern Painters, The Village Voice, Art in America, Trans, Out, and Parkett.

Photo of Bill Arning by Topher Cox, Boston.