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Caitlin Haskell (Editor), Tere Arcq (Editor)
Description: Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
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Caitlin Haskell (Editor), Tere Arcq (Editor)
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
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Tere Arcq is an independent curator and art historian. Formerly chief curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, she has specialized in the women Surrealists in Mexico, mainly Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Alice Rahon. She creates and produces exhibitions in Mexico and abroad.
Lara Balikci is a Research Assistant in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. A music theorist and flutist, she has pursued recent projects focused on the phenomenology of twentieth-century furniture music.
Mary Broadway is Associate Paper Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to caring for the museum’s paper-based objects, she enjoys participating in technical studies to elucidate artists’ processes and materials. Recently, she has contributed to Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2021) as well as a selection of the Art Institute’s online scholarly catalogues.
Brenda J. Caro Cocotle is Chief Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. She has worked in several public and private institutions as art manager, researcher, and curator, and has been a university professor and guest teacher. She has also contributed to diverse art and cultural magazines and journals such as Terremoto, Islario, La palabra y el hombre, Foam Magazine, and Afterall.
Caitlin Haskell is the Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator in Modern and Contemporary Art and Director of Ray Johnson Collection and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Claire Howard is Associate Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, at the University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. She is the curator of the upcoming exhibition Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi: Outside In and contributed essays to Surrealism Beyond Borders (Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern, 2021) and Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance (Penn State University Press, 2022).
Michelle Mandoki is a curatorial assistant currently working with Tere Arcq. She has contributed to the publications The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Artbook DAP, 2022) and Leonora Carrington: Revelación (Fundación MAPFRE, 2023). She recently graduated with a BA in Photography and a concentration in Experimental Humanities from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Alivé Piliado Santana is a dual MA candidate in Art History and Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was the 2021–22 McMullan Leadership Intern in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has worked as a curator in national museums in Mexico and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues on modern Mexican art.
Katrina Rush is a paintings conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago who specializes in the care, treatment, and research of modern and contemporary art. She has coordinated international symposia related to technical research on artists’ materials and methods and published on the works of various artists, including René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, and most recently Malangatana Ngwenya.
Alex Zivkovic is a doctoral candidate studying modern art and media in the Art History and Archaeology Department at Columbia University, New York. His dissertation examines greenhouses, aquariums, and gardens in French art and mass culture, from Impressionist painting to Surrealist film and exhibition design.