Dan Nadel, a critic Dan Nadel, introduced mainstream audiences of Kilter Artists, who has long been on the edge of American art history, joins the curator team at the Whitney Museum in New York, where he will now serve as a curator in the drawing and print department.
His appointment came about a month before the opening of his latest project, a grand Whitney show, opening in September of this year’s “Sixties Surreal.” The show will list the influence of surrealism on American art that has produced between 1958 and 1972.
Earlier this year, Nadel was praised for his biography, Robert Crumb, whose comics treat American culture with humor and intentional strangeness. But in the art world, Nadel has received widespread praise for organizing exhibitions that focus on not fully receiving the characters they deserve.
For example, for the Karma Gallery in New York in 2018, Nadel organized an exhibition by Gertrude Abercrombie. This was Abercrombie’s first New York show, a Chicago-based painter whose work was shared with Surrealism, and in 1952, after the exhibition, her work swelled.
Nadel’s other shows focus on the furry members, their group, the Red Groom, Kathy Butterly, and more.
He was formerly a large curator of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Sherm Museum of Art. He is for example American Art,,,,, Artnewssister publications.
“Paintings and prints are my first love and ongoing obsession, so it’s exciting to have the opportunity to sneak into the collection and continue to collaborate throughout the museum. I’m very excited to have this opportunity,” Nadall said in a statement.
Whitney, in addition to his appointment, announced that Jennie Goldstein curator for the series and Roxanne Smith assistant curator for the series.
