Barbara Haskell

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Barbara Haskell (born 1946 in San Diego, California) is an American art historian and a museum curator. She is currently a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art (WMAA), where she has worked since 1975. She previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum, and was hired at the WMAA by Thomas N. Armstrong III. She holds a BA (1969) from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is married to former Bard College President Leon Botstein. Her area of expertise is early to mid-20th-century painting and sculpture, including American modernists, Abstract Expressionists, and Pop artists. She is the founder and leader of the American Fellows, a patrons group for major donors to the Whitney. Among the landmark thematic exhibitions she has curated are BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958–1964 (1984), The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–1950 (1999), and Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 (2020). In addition...

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