363. Sabine Eckmann: William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

17/09/2023 13 min
363. Sabine Eckmann: William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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Sabine Eckmann joined the Kemper Art Museum as curator in fall 1999 and also regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences. Eckmann, a native of Nürnberg, Germany, is a specialist in 20th and 21st-century European art and visual culture with a particular focus on the intersection of art and politics, ranging from exile art and cold-war aesthetics to European post-unification art. Other research interests include avant-gardism, new art forms, media, critical theory and cultural studies.