Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue
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Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue is an art critic and essayist, writing on fine art, culture and critical theory for over two decades in a variety of international/national/local publications, including academic journals, art magazines, and popular press. Ms. Doktorczyk-Donohue is a full-time Associate Professor of Art History within the Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Otis College of Art and Design, where she has helped to coordinate curricular linkages between Art History and Fine Arts. Over a twenty-year college teaching career, she has lectured at Mount St. Mary's College, Cal State University, Pepperdine University, as well as other respected colleges. Ms Doktorczyk-Donohue is the author of dozens of exhibition catalogues and text essays, as well as the children's poetry volume, Cuando Palabras Suenan: When Words Dream. Ms Doktorczyk-Donohue is a co-managing editor for several art publications, including ArtScene and Visual Art Source. She is an independent curator who in 2011, along with noted art historian Peter Selz, curated the internationally lent exhibition, Framing Abstraction, debuting at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and traveling internationally in 2012-2013. She has published regular interview pieces featuring the directors and chief curators of major international museums, discussing with them exhibitions on Eva Hesse, Blinky Palermo, Dennis Hopper, Vija Celmins, Baroque bronzes, the Renaissance artist Archimboldo, for the on-line magazine Introspective, published by the New York based art and design platform 1srdibs.com (http://www.1stdibs.com/#introspective).

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Lise Sarfati At Rose Gallery

Posted February 22, 2012 | 02/22/12 05:08 PM ET

2012-02-16-Christina.jpgParisian-born Lise Sarfati has shown internationally and her predominantly female subjects are utterly uneventful and hugely momentous at once.

ROSEGALLERY will show back to back venues, first opening Feb. 25th with works from Sarfati's series On Hollywood, followed in March by the...

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Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse

Posted August 1, 2011 | 08/01/11 05:57 PM ET

Obits eulogize. I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures -- one whose timing is consistent with humans' four-score shelf life, the other in my estimation, a tragic early waste of a remarkably profound talent.

So, if your grandfather invented...

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SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting

Posted July 6, 2011 | 07/06/11 06:18 PM ET

Two photos in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's The Steins Collect (May 21 to Sept. 16, 2011) won't let go of me.

One is a teeny, easy to-miss shot of Gertrude and Alice in their Ford van painted with a red cross and commandeered to minister to...

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