Madeleine Grynsztejn was the Dlise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture from 2000 to 2008. Grynsztejn was hired in 2000 after she finished opening the Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. After arriving as curator she began creating a road map of known masterpieces that the museum agreed upon in various concentrations starting from 1900. Prior to SFMOMA she worked as a curator in New York in the 1980s and spent her graduate work working with Theodore Reff and Barbara Novak at Columbia university. In this interview, Grynsztejn discusses the Carnegie International Exhibition, being recruited by David Ross, prior experiences at SFMOMA, goals and work as curator, student experience, curating in New York, Richard Tuttle, Doris Salcedo, “The American Exhibition” at the Art Institute of Chicago, how art works in spaces, the Getty Museum Leadership Initiative, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.