St. Louis Art Museum curator, Charlotte Eyerman, leaving for the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif.
FROM THE LOU TO BEVERLY HILLS: Charlotte Eyerman, curator of modern and contemporary art for the St. Louis Art Museum, is leaving to become a director of the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Gagosian galleries (there are 8 in the U.S. and Europe) are considered by art collectors, educators, curators and critics to be among the top 2 or 3 galleries in the world.
Eyerman, a St. Louis native (Rosati-Kain High School, 1983), came to the art museum in 2006 from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where she was assistant curator of paintings from 2002 until she left.
She is a specialist in 19th-century French art and has written a variety of articles and essays on 19th- and 20th-century art. She wrote the exhibition catalogue, “Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow,” which was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2002.
Eyerman, who was raised in the Central West End, is a graduate of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and has a Ph.D. in art history from UC-Berkeley. She has taught art history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif.
Eyerman was on the faculty at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. While there she was named the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor in 1996 for excellence in teaching and scholarship.
Her mother, Sun Smith-Foret (formerly Linda Eyerman) is an artist and psychotherapist who lives in Elsah, Ill.; her father is deceased. Her mother was a civil rights and neighborhood improvements advocate who helped found the West End Word newspaper in 1972.
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Geez! Will ya quit with “The Lou” moniker? It’s just not cute, not funny, not anything but stupid sounding. I don’t know anyone who says it, thankfully. Give it a rest.
Congrats Charlotte! So wonderful, so exciting!!!
Agree with Frabax. Why in the world would anyone be proud to live in a city nicknamed after a place where people defacate? I’m embarrassed when my out-of-town friends snicker at local media’s insistence on calling St. Louis “The Lou”. Is this an attempt to be familiar, casual, hey we’re a hip town sort of thing? It’s not working. We’re literally the butt end of their jokes.
No wonder someone as distinguised as Charlotte would choose to move on to a classier place.
Agreed. the lou is corny…gimmicky and the english name for a toilet. Hate it!
Agree with the others that “The Lou” is an obnoxious term used only by hokey columnists. Why is it that Deb Peterson and formerly Jerry Berger feel it necessary to use terms like “ankled”, colyumnist and other odd expressions. Using these terms isn’t hip; it is just stupid.
The Lou is infantile, not terribly clever, and everyone in St. Louis has been complaining about Peterson’s use of it for years. I suspect she continues because she just hates the city, likes the attention, and doesn’t have anything in her column that she didn’t inherit from Berger.
Not much of a writer, and hardly a journalist.
Wow, St. Louis has some real classy ladies (marymae, Joyce, Julie) with too much time on their hands and who need to get over themselves. I’d hope you’d have bigger fish to fry. Apparently not.
You not what’s ”not terribly clever”? Chewing Deb out every time she writes a word you dislike.
When Charlotte went to Rosati…St. Louis offered a downtown performing
arts center and 12-13 weeks of MUNY. She is going back to a city with a downtown performing arts center. Museum people are smart and they ‘cross’ over. If sports fans crossed over, St. Louis would be a City..again.
I commented on The Lou when it was ’spawned’…it means: ‘reduced city’.
It is accurate in that context…it reflects minimized, reduced.