Bernard Jazzar is curator of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, since 1993. He has organized five exhibitions for the Aspen Institute, four exploring Herbert Bayer’s work and one celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus founding. Jazzar wrote entries for and edited Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection. An authority on modern and contemporary enameling in the United States, he co-curated the exhibition Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980 and co-authored a publication of the same name. Jazzar also co-authored Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present and June Schwarcz: Artist in Glass and Metal. He previously worked in the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Decorative Arts.
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