Laura Hoptman Interview with John leKay

Laura Hoptman is a curator at The New Museum in New York. She was most recently Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art where she organized the 2004-05 Carnegie International. Prior to the Carnegie, she served as Assistant Curator, Drawings, at the Museum of Modern Art (1995-2001), where she organized “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, an international survey of contemporary drawings, in addition to several well received “Projects” exhibitions. She also served as co-curator for “Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama” and was one of a team of six curators who organized the first “Greater New York” exhibition at P.S.1. in 2000. She previously held positions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.