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Josh Siegel
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Josh Siegel, an assistant curator in the Department of Film and Media at The Museum of Modern Art, has organized more than eighty exhibitions, including The Lodz Film School of Poland: 50 Years (for which he was awarded the Amicus Poloniae from the Polish government); Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures; To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation; and retrospectives devoted to Polish animation, Jeanne Moreau, Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray, Oskar Fischinger, Ken Jacobs, Killer Films, James Wong Howe, John Frankenheimer, Jean Painlevé, and Errol Morris. Currently he is organizing the gallery exhibition Projects 84: Josiah McElheny; as well as a major jazz and cinema project and retrospectives on Dziga Vertov, Frederick Wiseman, and James Benning.
Mr. Siegel co-curated OPEN ENDS with Kirk Varnedoe and Paola Antonelli, the third cycle of MoMA2000 exhibitions, and co-edited the accompanying catalogue Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980.
He has been a panelist for the Penny McCall Foundation and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs; a juror at festivals including the Vancouver International Film Festival; a guest lecturer at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Southern California; a consultant on segments of 60 Minutes, Frontline, and American Masters; and a board member of CinemaTropical and Makor. Currently he is designing a drive-in movie theater in Marfa, Texas, which is scheduled to open in the spring of 2007.
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