Cartin Curator Adds Bass Museum to Resume:
By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views, Contributor
“Steven Holmes has been appointed adjunct curator at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art. The independent curator began working with the museum two years ago, spearheading the three-part exhibition series,The Endless Renaissance, which pairs Renaissance and Baroque works with contemporary artworks.
Holmes will continue to live in West Hartford, Connecticut, and serve as head curator of the Cartin Collection. The Cartin Collection, a 4,000 sq. foot storefront in downtown Hartford, features the private holdings of Connecticut electric supply mogul Mickey Cartin. Since 2006, Holmes has overseen Cartin’s collection, curating shows for the Hartford space and organizing exhibitions from the collection in museums and galleries across the country.
Prior to his position at Cartin, Holmes was director of visual arts at Real Art Ways in Hartford; and founder of the Khyber Arts Society in Halifax Nova Scotia. He has curated projects for Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunste-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and the Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico.
Located on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, the Bass Museum of Art was founded in 1963 when John and Johanna Bass donated 500 works of Renaissance and Baroque art to the city of Miami Beach. The museum collection has expanded to over 3,000 works including European painting and sculpture, textiles, tapestries, North American, Latin American and Caribbean art and modern and contemporary paintings, sculpture, photographs and drawings. The museum opened an Egyptian gallery in April 2010.”
(Via Lindsay Pollock.)