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Oral history interview with Elsa Longhauser, 2024 June 12 and 14

Longhauser, Elsa, 1940-

Museum director, Art museum curator, Gallery director

Overview

Collection Information

Size: 22 sound files (5 hrs., 11 min.), digital, wav

Summary: An interview with Elsa Longhauser conducted 2024 June 12 and 14, by Kristine McKenna for the Archives of American Art, at Longhauser's home in Los Angeles, California.­

Biographical/Historical Note

Interviewee Elsa Longhauser (1940-) is a museum director and curator based in Los Angeles, California. Longhauser is the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, California.

Interviewer Kristine McKenna (1951-) is a writer and journalist based in Los Angeles, California.

Provenance

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Language Note

English .

How to Use This Collection

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Elsa Longhauser, 2024 June 12 and 14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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