Gilbert Brownstone

Gilbert Brownstone
Born	April 5, 1938 New York, NY
Nationality	Swiss-American
Known for	Director

Gilbert Brownstone (born April 5, 1938), in New York City, New York is a French contemporary art curator and philanthropist. Brownstone married Catherine Brownstone, the former fashion director of Vogue France and Elle (magazine).

Education

He studied political science as an undergraduate and then entered graduate school at Sorbonne University and took courses in art history.

Early career

In 1967, he worked for the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, in the Contemporary Art section. While working at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, he participated in designing and curating exhibitions by artists such as Shusaku Arakawa, Edward Kienholz, Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana, Joseph Kosuth, and Jesús Rafael Soto, among others. In 1974, he was appointed director of the Musée Picasso (Antibes), then curator of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Museums and expansion projects

In the 1982s, Brownstone opened his commercial art gallery in Paris, France, called Gilbert Brownstone & Cie., promoting minimalist art trend in Paris. In 1999, he created the Brownstone Foundation with the goal of promoting social justice through culture. Over the past two decades, Gilbert Brownstone has made significant donations of art to museums and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Norton Museum of Art, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana of Cuba. In 2011, Brownstone gave the Cuban people a set of 138 screen prints depicting artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, and Joan Miró.

Selected publications and articles

• Roving art show brings Picasso to Cuban masses, Associated Press, September 28, 2011
• Art in Cuba, Groupe Flammarion, Paris, France, April 2019 ISBN 978-2-08-020388-5