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Barbara London is an American curator, writer, and sound art advocate best known for founding the video collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). London founded the museum's video collection with works by Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Lynda Benglis.〔Garner, Hannah. (Barbara London, Champion of Video and Sound Art, Is Leaving MOMA ). Artfcity.com. September 19, 2013.〕 London studied at Hiram College, graduating with a BA in 1968, and then studied Islamic art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, receiving an MA in 1972.〔(Barbara London, Critic ), Yale University School of Art] 〕 She joined the staff at MoMa in 1970 as a program assistant, was a curatorial assistant from 1974 to 1977, and became assistant curator of video in 1977. She curated many major exhibitions at MoMA, show casing Chinese and Japanese artists. In 1997, London created ''Stir-Fry'', a multimedia site that mapped emerging Chinese media. Then in 2001, London produced MoMA's first website art commission, Tony Oursler’s ''Timestream''.〔Cook, Sarah. () March 22, 2001.〕 After over four decades at MoMA, London retired from her position as an Associate Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art in 2013. She is the editor of Soundings: A Contemporary Score. == Exhibitions == *Sound Art (1979) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara London (curator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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