This week (the) Amanda Browder and Tom talk with
curator Manon Slome about the "No Longer Empty" series of exhibitions.
Manon is one of the curators of this year long series of shows, each of
which inhabits an abandoned New York City store front for one month.
Along the way the three talk about the dismal state of affairs in Ol'
New York and how we can make lemonade out of these lemons.Manon Slome
(PhD) is an independent curator working in New York City. From 2002 to
June 2008 she was the Chief Curator of the Chelsea Art Museum in New
York since its inception in 2002. During that time, she has curated and
overseen a program of some forty exhibitions, symposia and museum
publications as well as monographs and scholarly essays. Ms. Slome
became highly involved with the Israeli art scene during her research
for the exhibition, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”,
(2005) and has followed and researched the Israeli scene for the last 3
years. Prior to the CAM, Ms. Slome worked as a curator at the
Guggenheim Museum for 7 years and was a holder of a Helena Rubestein
curatorial fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study program. She is
currently working on a book, The Aesthetics of Terror.