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Guy Brett, Influential Curator and Critic Who Expanded Art History, Has Died at 78

Guy Brett, a curator and critic associated with London’s pioneering Signals gallery of the 1960s, has died at 78. Kurimanzutto gallery, which in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery hosted an exhibition devoted to Signals in 2018, announced Brett’s passing on Instagram, but did not specify a cause of death.

Throughout his career, Brett, who was born in 1942, widened art history’s Eurocentric purview to include figures from Latin America and Asia who had been overlooked by his colleagues. As critic for the Times of London and many other outlets, including Art in America, for whom he addressed the art of Rasheed Araeen in 1998, Brett focused on those whose work might not otherwise fit chronologies and narratives that had been historically centered in the discipline.

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Nancy Brett is a visual artist from Detroit, currently living and working in NYC.  She earned a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wayne State University.  She has received grants and fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and six Residency Fellowships from Yaddo, among others.  Ms. Brett's work is represented in many private and public collections that include The Library of Congress, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and The National Gallery in Washington, DC., among many others. 
 

Brett uses painting, drawing, and weaving to explore the intricate relationship of handwriting, language, and meaning. She examines how thinking is translated into words and symbols and reflects memory and imperma

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