Alexander Kauffman
Alexander Kauffman is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art with a graduate certificate in cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of modern art and media. He is currently completing a dissertation on the relationship between visual art and film in the work of Marcel Duchamp. Alex holds a B.A. summa cum laude from New York University and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2013-2014 and curator of the film program for the museum’s exhibition “Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp.” Recipient of the 2014 Herskovic Prize for an essay based on his master’s research, Alex is also a contributor to the catalogues of several recent exhibitions, including “Marcel Duchamp - La peinture, même. 1910-1923” at the Centre Pompidou.
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