Jane Panetta on Richard Serra

Jane Panetta is a New York based independent art historian. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on modern and contemporary sculpture, and holds a curatorial position at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Prior to the Whitney, Panetta spent several years in the Painting and Sculpture Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was involved specifically with MoMA’s 2007 Richard Serra retrospective and the 2009 retrospective on the Belgian artist James Ensor. Panetta was a contributor to the publication James Ensor (2009), and writes frequently for such publications as Art in America and Modern Painters. Alongside her museum work, she is also an adjunct faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design.