About Viewpoint
Each spring, as part of the 20+ year Viewpoint Series, the Department of Art and Art History hosts a pair of leading art critics or curators for lectures, critiques, and seminars during two interactions with the UT Austin community over the course of the semester.
This year, the department presents Alex Klein and Dan Nadel.
Alex Klein is the Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin where she works alongside the curatorial team to shape the exhibition program at the Jones Center and steward the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Her survey exhibition of Carl Cheng’s genre-defying practice, Nature Never Loses, opened in Austin in Fall 2024 and is currently traveling to venues in the US and Europe through 2027. Most recently she has generated exhibitions with artists including Jiab Prachakul, Lubaina Himid, Guadalupe Maravilla, Manik Raj Nakra, and Sable Elyse Smith. Prior to her current role she was the Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE ’60) Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (ICA).
Dan Nadel is the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, named by the New York Times, Washington Post, and New Yorker as one of the best books of 2025.