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Christopher Bedford is the Dorothy Wagner Wallace Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. He was previously the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. During his tenure at the Rose, he commissioned a major installation from Chris Burden for the museum, resulting in Burden's Light of Reason (2014). Russell Ferguson is an art historian, curator, author, and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Chris Burden also taught from 1978 until 2005. Ferguson was chair of the Department of Art at UCLA from 2007 until 2013. He was previously Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs and Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and an Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Michael Govan is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Govan arranged the acquisition of Chris Burden's Urban Light for the museum; it debuted in finished form outside of LACMA in February 2008. Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker. George Roberts, co-founder, co-chairman and co-CEO of KKR, is an alumnus of Claremont McKenna College. In 2016 he gifted the Roberts Pavilion, a fitness and events centre, to his alma mater. Included in the gift was Chris Burden's final streetlamp sculpture, Meet in the Middle (2012/2016), installed adjacent to the Pavilion's entry.
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