“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantl...” — Thelma Golden Quote

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.

I encourage everybody to hop on Google and type in 'national park' in whatever state they live in and see the beauty that lies in their own backyard. It's that simple.

We were the house everybody came to. We had baseball in the backyard, roller hockey in the front yard. For football we connected three neighbor backyards to make one huge football field. We prided ourselves on being competitive.

I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.