Virginia Commonwealth University announced on Wednesday that it had appointed Lisa Freiman to be the inaugural director of its forthcoming Institute for Contemporary Art, which is slated to open in 2015 on the college’s Richmond campus in a building designed by Steven Holl Architects. Freiman, who is currently the senior curator and chair of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s contemporary art department, will also be a professor in VCU’s School of the Arts. She begins her new job on July 1. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Appointments’
May 15, 2013, 2:00 pm
Lisa Freiman Will Be the Inaugural Director at VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art
May 1, 2013, 1:11 pm
The Hood Museum at Dartmouth Has Hired its First Curator of African Art
Today the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College announced that it has hired Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi to be its first-ever curator of African art, a post he will take up on August 26. Born in Nigeria, Nzewi wrote his doctoral dissertation at Emory University on the Dak’Art Biennial and its influence on contemporary African art, and went on to curate “Windows Part 1: New Works by Ndary Lo” during last year’s edition of the Biennial. He also curated “Transitions: Contemporary South African Works on Paper” at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art in 2009. (more…)
April 30, 2013, 12:36 pm
Tampa’s Florida Museum of Photographic Art Hires Jane Simon as New Director
The Florida Museum of Photographic Art in Tampa Bay has hired Jane Simon to be its new director, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports. Simon comes to the FMPA from the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida just across town — on whose campus the FMPA started out in 2001. Prior to that she was a curator at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts in Wisconsin. (more…)
April 29, 2013, 1:45 pm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Hires Anne-Marie Eze as New Associate Curator
Last week the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston announced the appointment of Anne-Marie Eze as its new associated curator of the collection, a job she began as on April 1. For the past three years Eze has served as the institution’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. Prior to her stint at the Gardner Eze, a Brit, was an assistant curator from 2003-06 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2010 she earned an art history doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art. (more…)
April 11, 2013, 7:40 am
Charles Esche Will Curate Next Year’s Sao Paulo Biennial
Next year’s São Paulo Biennial, the international exhibition’s 31st edition, will be curated by Charles Esche, the director of the Van Abbe Museum in the Netherlands, the Folha de São Paulo reports. Esche was one of five curators whose proposals were being considered; his engages with art’s ability to reflect, resist, and facilitate globalization. (more…)
April 10, 2013, 2:25 pm
George Washington University Appoints John Wetenhall as Director of its New Museum
Today the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, which will join forces when the former opens on the college’s Washington, D.C. campus in 2014, have appointed John Wetenhall as their director, a job he’ll begin on June 1. He will also serve as an associate professor of museum studies at George Washington. In his previous leadership roles, including positions at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museums, Florida’s Ringling Museum, and Nashville’s Cheekwood Museum of Art, Wetenhall has helped fundraise and direct no fewer than four museum building projects, making him uniquely qualified to helm this new hybrid institution. (more…)
April 5, 2013, 10:08 am
Tate Director-Turned-Olive Oil Impressario Vicente Todoli Joins Milan’s HangarBicocca
Though he’s dropped off the art world map since leaving the helm of the Tate Modern in 2010, Vincente Todolí has been busy pressing olives from his 400 olive trees near Alicante and bottling their extract for his line of high-end olive oil, Tot Oli. Now, however, he’s making his return to art: He has signed on to be an artistic adviser at HangarBicocca, a very large new contemporary art space in Milan, the Art Newspaper reports. (more…)
April 5, 2013, 8:49 am
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Hires Erin Dziedzic as New Curator
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City has a new curator and head of adult programs, Erin Dziedzic, who comes to the Missouri institution from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where she is a curator. She begins her new role at the Kemper later this month. (more…)
April 3, 2013, 12:42 pm
The Louvre’s New Director Will Be Greco-Roman Curator Jean-Luc Martinez
April 1, 2013, 7:41 am
University of New Mexico Art Museum Appoints Lisa Tamiris Becker as New Director
The University of New Mexico’s (UNM) College of Fine Arts has hired Lisa Tamiris Becker to be the new director of the UNM Art Museum, a job she starts today. Becker — a Brit who earned her MFA in studio art and art theory from the University of Texas at Austin — has been the director of the CU Art Museum (CUAM) at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2002. (more…)
