Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter D'Agostino

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)‎ TheWikiToby (talk) 00:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Peter D'Agostino[edit]

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This entire article is just a resume. The creator of the article only had 3 edits from 15 years ago on this page. I searched for sources, and the results were mostly from Temple University itself where D'Agostino teaches. TheWikiToby (talk) 17:24, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Artists, Film, Visual arts, and Photography. TheWikiToby (talk) 17:24, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Changing to Keep, further digging revealed reviews in ArtForum and Aperture that meet the bare minimum for WP:NARTIST. I also tagged it with various cleanup templates, because regardless of the AFD outcome it needs a lot of work. nf utvol (talk) 12:52, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - What the what?! Peter D'Agostino is a very well known and highly respected artist. He's in multiple museum collections including top notch institutions like MoMA, the Whitney, Philadelphia Museum, the MET, etc. making him a clear pass of WP:NARTIST. Unless this is a different artist with the same name, it appears that a WP:BEFORE was not conducted prior to nominating. Will return soon after I do more research to !vote to rule out if this is someone with the same name. Netherzone (talk) 22:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My initial searches didn't turn up much, but I did a little more digging and found two things that might contribute to notability. First was was this artist profile on the MoMA page, but does having a video presentation in the MoMA and another in PS1 really count as notable? I didn't immediately see his stuff in any permanent collections, just temporary exhibits. Second mention that I found was this review in ArtForum from 1987 of a showing of one of his video exhibits in the Philadelphia Museum. Honestly this is getting outside of my area of expertise so I'd be willing to shift my vote if someone more knowledgeable than me can tell me if this is truly notable...I'm just not seeing the WP:NARTIST right now though.nf utvol (talk) 23:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep - A short BEFORE reveals that this is indeed the same Peter D'Agostino. With a multitude of exhibitions at notable international institutions, his work is in several permanent collections of notable museums, his work has been reviewed in the likes of ARTFORUM, Aperture, the New York Times, etc. and many notable grants/fellowships including three from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pew Fellowship, 3 Fullbright fellowships, he was a Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and the list goes on. Plus he's a full-professor at Temple U and the director of Climate, Sustainabilty & the Arts there as well. I am not including diffs since this info is easily found via a basic Google search. He meets NARTIST, GNG and NACADEMIC. I suggest that the nominator, TheWikiToby withdraw the nomination. Netherzone (talk) 23:16, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not arguing, but I would appreciate if you could provide some links to those reviews and fellowships you mentioned. I found the one I mentioned above in Art Forum and another in Aperture, but "take my word for it, he's important" isn't really the best way to handle this. nf utvol (talk) 23:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Netherzone. Thriley (talk) 23:19, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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