![]() ![]() But she never expected the last five months or so to unfold quite the way they have.Īt 29, as the curator of “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” an exhibition that opened at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art in November and opens Tuesday at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Golden has been buried in an avalanche of sensational criticism and protest. Golden may always have expected controversy. “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,” she says. When Thelma Golden decided she wanted to be a curator of contemporary art in a major Manhattan museum, she never expected to send everyone home happy. ![]()
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