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Selma Holo

Expert in museums focusing on Los Angeles, Spain and Mexico
  • Director, USC Fisher Museum of Art
  • Director, USC International Museum Institute for Advanced Studies and Practice
  • Professor of art history, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-4565
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Expertise

  • museum administration and training
  • museology -- the study of museums themselves and their influences on the shaping of our culture
  • permanent collections
  • museum curating
  • museums and the public trust
  • art in Los Angeles
  • Spanish art and museums
  • Mexican museums
  • Goya
  • Picasso
  • Ribera

Languages

  • Spanish

Additional Information

  • Co-editor (with Mari-Tere Alvarez), Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values (2009)
  • Author, Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change (2004) and Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain (1999)
  • Director, USC’s graduate Museum Studies Program (1981-2004)
  • Acquisitions curator, Norton Simon Museum (1977-1981)