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This year the HRC is delighted to welcome as this year's Donald Charlton lecturer Professor Bruce Altshuler, Director of the Museum Studies Program at New York University and a leading authority on museum and exhibition history.  Originally trained as a philosopher, Altshuler has worked in a wide variety of museum contexts and has been director of the Zabriskie Gallery (1985-9) and the Noguchi Museum (1992-8).  Before joining the faculty of NYU in 2000, he was on the graduate faculty of Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Director of Studies at Christie's Education, New York.

Altshuler has researched and lectured widely on museum and exhibition history, producing some of the key textbooks on this subject: The Avant-garde in Exhibition (University of California Press, 1998) and Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art (Princeton University Press, 2005). The first of his two-volume work of exhibition history documentation, Salon to Biennial will be published this Autumn by Phaidon Press.

Altshuler's lecture will discuss the importance of the history and analysis of exhibitions for the study of art history. Highlighting the various relationships that can obtain between artworks and the exhibitions in which they are displayed, it will employ examples ranging from shows of early modern art through conceptual art presentation practices of the late 1960's and 70's.

Sue Dibben (BA Hons) Centre Secretary Humanities Research Centre Room H452 University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK   Tel: 024 765 23401 Email: HRC@warwick.ac.uk