EMMA DEXTER.(London, England's Institute of Contemporary Art Director of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

How does Emma Dexter (director of exhibitions at London's Institute of Contemporary Art from 1992 to last year) fit into Tate Modern's radical plans? In appointing Dexter to work alongside Iwona Blazwick, Frances Morris, and Donna De Salvo, Lars Nittve has recruited a curator with distinctive tastes and plenty of experience pushing the exhibiting envelope.

Even as an M.Phil. student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Dexter aimed straight for a subject--the often bizarre painted-wood sculptures of the Spanish Baroque--that took her well beyond safe high-art confines. From there, her 1985-87 appointment as assistant curator of fine art at Stoke-on-Trent's City Museum …