Bücher von Nicholas Bell

Nicholas R. Bell is The Fleur and Charles Bresler Senior Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has been a curator at the museum since 2009. His research interests include American craft, decorative art in America from the 17th through the 21st centuries, folk and self-taught art, and theories of material culture. Bell is organizing the reopening exhibition following the Renwick Gallery s two-year renovation. Titled WONDER, the project turns over the whole of the museum to site-specific installations by nine major contemporary artists. Bell previously curated the highly praised Renwick Gallery s 40th anniversary exhibition, "40 under 40: Craft Futures" (2012). Other recent exhibitions include "Untitled: The Art of James Castle "(2014), for which he was the author of the accompanying catalogue. He is also editor of the anthology "Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture," based on the proceedings of the Renwick Gallery s 40th anniversary symposium. He has written for a variety of publications including "Winterthur Portfolio" and "American Furniture." Bell earned a bachelor s degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia (2005), and a master s degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware (2008)."