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- Peter Marks
Anne Goodyear, 38
Assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Frank Goodyear, 41
Associate curator of photographs at the Portrait Gallery
Anne and Frank Goodyear come across as the archetypally normal, middle-of-the-road, friendly Americans, so plain nice it's hard to believe. Given that the couple are both curators at the National Portrait Gallery, a museum dedicated to telling "the story of America," their apparent averageness makes sense. The only surprise is that their work has been all about pushing the once-stodgy museum away from the comfortable center. Anne is preparing a major exhibition on Marcel Duchamp, godfather of radical contemporary art. Frank helped put together the current hip-hop show. For his first solo venture as a curator -- his background's not in art but in American studies -- he chose to mount the recent exhibition on Zaida Ben-Yusuf, an ultra-obscure photographer from Gilded Age New York. Both Anne and Frank wax enthusiastic about the museum's push into contemporary art and media. Of course, they're far too nice to take credit for any of this themselves; it's all about their fine colleagues and the supportive bosses who make their ventures possible. "There are things we could do here our good friends at the National Gallery can't do," says Frank. "It isn't that we're necessarily brilliant."
- Blake Gopnik
