Public Talk and Conversation with Vesela Sretenovi¿, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Email Pedro Lasch at plasch@duke.edu if you'd like to receive the optional readings.Vesela Sretenovi¿ is senior curator of modern and contemporary art. She joined The Phillips Collection in January of 2009, bringing a significant experience as a museum professional and scholar. Upon her arrival to the Phillips, she initiated a series of ongoing art projects called Intersections, inviting contemporary artists to engage with the permanent collection or/and museum architecture and present or create new work. So far, the series included 21 projects by emerging and established, national and international artists, including Bernardi Roig, Alyson Shotz; A.Balasubramaniam; Nicholas and Sheila Pye; Jae Ko; Kate Shepherd; Linn Meyers; Jennifer Wen Ma: Xavier Veilhan, and Sandra Cinto, among others. This May, the Phillips will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Intersections series with a comprehensive exhibition/catalogue featuring the works of participating artists that have entered the museum permanent collection. In 2010, she organized the first solo exhibition of Robert Ryman¿s work in the Washington, D.C. area, and in 2012 the first presentation of Antony Gormley¿s works on paper in the USA. In 2013, she curated an exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly¿s recent panel paintings. Sretenovi¿ has written for numerous exhibition catalogues and has taught courses in art theory at the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Philips.