Yale Art Dean, Curator to speak at SandRidge

SandRidge Energy and City Arts Center welcome one of the

world’s foremost curators and art critics to Oklahoma City.

For immediate release

March 14, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY — — Robert Storr, Dean of

the Yale University School of Art, artist and
critic, will speak at SandRidge Energy 11:30
a.m., March 14.

The title of Storr’s lecture is Contemporary

Art and Collecting. The event is part City
Art Center’s annual lecture series, which on
this occasion SandRidge Energy has
generously agreed to host.

According to Mary Ann Prior, Executive Director, City Arts Center, Storr is
something of an icon in the art world. “He is one of the most respected curators
worldwide,” she said. “His art criticism is hugely admired as is his ability to
unravel some of the complex and challenging concepts and practices behind
modern and contemporary art. He is a very sought-after speaker, so I am
delighted that he is coming to Oklahoma City where he will find an enthusiastic
audience.”

The public is invited to attend and there is no charge for admission, however,
personal RSVP is required to ensure access to SandRidge Energy’s 28th floor.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Brooke at City Arts Center, (405)
951-000 or brooke@cityartscenter.org

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PR contact: Jennifer James, APR

pr@cityartscenter.org, (405) 951-0000
Biography, Robert Storr
Robert Storr is an artist, critic, curator. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of
Painting and Dean of the School of Art at Yale University. Mr. Storr received a B.A.
from Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A.
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in
1978. He was curator in the Department of
Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002. In
2002 Mr. Storr was named the first Rosalie
Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University.

Mr. Storr has taught at CUNY, the Bard Center

for Curatorial Studies, Rhode Island School of
Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio
School, and Harvard University. He lectures
frequently in this country and abroad.

He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently
for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London). He has also written
numerous catalogs, articles, and books. Among his many honors he has received a
Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator
Grant, and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the
Maine College of Art and Lyme Academy. His awards include the American Chapter
of the International Association of Art Critics, a special AICA award for
Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Art Criticism, an ICI Agnes Gund
Curatorial Award, and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence
in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of
American Art. In 2000 the French Ministry of Culture presented him with the
medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He is currently Consulting Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. and in 2007 was
chosen commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the first American invited to
assume that position.

PR contact: Jennifer James, APR

pr@cityartscenter.org, (405) 951-0000