Kate Nesin

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[Image ID] A black-and-white photograph framed closely around the face of a white woman with silvery-brown, shoulder-length hair. Her head is slightly tilted to her right, and she smiles with her lips closed. Kate Nesin is an art historian, researcher, and writer based in upstate New York. Since 2011 she has been Mellon Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art, associate curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, guest curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is currently curator-at-large at the Art Institute. In most projects, Kate has tended toward monographic study: Her exhibitions include solo shows with Lucy McKenzie, Kemang Wa Lehulere, and Helena Almeida, among others, and she is the author of Cy Twombly's Things (Yale University Press), with recent or forthcoming essays on Nairy Baghramian, Carl Cheng, B. Ingrid Olson, and Lutz Bacher.

On Descriptive Ends / No Descriptive End

In her essay about image description and “disability ekphrasis,” Kate Nesin reconsiders the idea that our primary encounter with an artwork is visual, leading instead with the texture and detail of words.

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