Norman Rosenthal
Sir Norman Rosenthal (born 8 November 1944) is a British independent curator and art historian. From 1970 to 1974 he was Exhibitions Officer at
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. In 1974 he became a curator at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, leaving in 1976. The following year, in 1977, he joined the
Royal Academy in London as Exhibitions Secretary where he remained until his resignation in 2008. Rosenthal has been a trustee of numerous different national and international cultural organisations since the 1980s; he is currently on the board of
English National Ballet. In 2007, he was awarded a
knighthood in the
Queen's Birthday Honours List. Rosenthal is well known for his support of contemporary art, and is particularly associated with the German artists
Joseph Beuys,
Georg Baselitz,
Anselm Kiefer and
Julian Schnabel, the Italian painter
Francesco Clemente, and the generation of British artists that came to prominence in the early 1990s known as the
YBAs (Young British Artists).
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