Kathryn Kanjo Named Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

SAN DIEGO, CA.- Dr. Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), announced today that Kathryn Kanjo has been appointed the new Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department, concluding a comprehensive international search. Kanjo is currently the Director of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and plans to assume her new responsibilities at MCASD on July 20, 2010. “Kathryn Kanjo is an [...]

Irene Hofmann Named Phillip’s Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe

SANTA FE, NM.- On the eve of its Eighth International Biennial, The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe today announced that Irene Hofmann has been named Phillips Director and Chief Curator, effective October 1, 2010. The appointment was ratified at a meeting of SITE Santa Fe Board of Directors held on June 8, 2010. Ms. Hofmann succeeds Laura Steward, who became Director of SITE Santa Fe in 2005 and in September 2009 announced that she would be stepping down following the opening [...]

Sotheby’s Sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London Realises 10,858,075 Pounds

LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London today realised £10,858,075 / €13,027,566 – within the pre-sale estimate of £9,870,000-14,564,000 / €11,842,070-17,473,952, and obtaining sell through rates of 71.3% by lot and 78.9% by value. Public institutions pitted themselves against private collectors and trade, driving prices over estimate in many instances. One of the finest figure paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ever to have appeared on the market was purchased by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva for [...]

Painting by Corot Purchased by Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva

LONDON.- Today at Sotheby’s in London, in the sale of 19th Century European Paintings, one of the finest figure paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ever to have appeared on the market was purchased by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva for £1,609,250 / CHF 2,740,717, exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of £1.2 million. Jeune femme à la fontaine enjoyed an exceptional early provenance before it was requisitioned during the Nazi period, and was recently restituted to the heirs of its [...]

Joseph Rosa Appointed New Director of U-M Museum of Art

ANN ARBOR, MI.- Joseph Rosa, the Art Institute of Chicago’s chief curator of architecture and design, will become the new director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the university has announced today. The appointment, pending approval by the U-M Board of Regents, is effective July 1. “We are so pleased that Joe Rosa has agreed to lead the University of Michigan Museum of Art at this particularly auspicious and exciting moment in its history,” said U-M President Mary [...]

Picasso’s Themes and Variations Offers Unique View into Artist’s Creative Process

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Picasso: Themes and Variations, an exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso’s creative process through the medium of printmaking, from March 28 to August 30, 2010. It features approximately 100 works from the Museum’s superlative collection of the artist’s prints. The exhibition is organized by Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art. Pablo Picasso’s insatiable curiosity and tireless urge to create art often [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Ceal Floyer’s First Solo Museum Exhibition

MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will present Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus from March 11 through May 9, 2010. This mid-career survey is Floyer’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, featuring multi-media works from the late 1990s to the present. The exhibition is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. Floyer’s deceptively, minimal conceptual works emerge from her daily experiences rather than from [...]

Carnegie Museum of Art Announces Staff Promotions and Changes

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces two staff promotions and two curators sharing responsibilities of the chief curator. Dan Byers, previously assistant curator of contemporary art, and Amanda Zehnder, previously assistant curator of fine arts, have been promoted to associate curators. Zehnder, who joined the museum in 2005, has curated numerous exhibitions in the Works on Paper Gallery, including the current Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: Works on Paper from the 18th through 20th Centuries. Byers has been [...]

Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art Explored at Istanbul Modern

ISTANBUL.- İstanbul Modern’s new Exhibition, “From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art”, will open in February 2010. Focusing on the relationship between art and the traditional, the Exhibition seeks to show how artists employ history in their construction of modernism. Curated by İstanbul Modern’s chief Curator Levent Çalıkoğlu, “From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art“ will be a exhibition in which modern and contemporary artists will take part. These are the artists who reinterpret [...]

Hamza Walker and Artur Zmijewski Win $100,000 Ordway Prize

NEW YORK, NY.- Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum have announced Hamza Walker, the Director of Education and Associate Curator at Chicago’s Renaissance Society, and Polish artist Artur Żmijewski, as the recipients of the Ordway Prize. An international panel of Nominators and a Jury of leading arts world figures-led by Jennifer McSweeney, Director of Creative Link for the Arts, and Richard Flood, Chief Curator at the New Museum-selected the Ordway Prize recipients from a global pool of [...]

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Appoints New Chief Curator

BOSTON, MA.- After an extensive search, the Institute of Contemporary Art has appointed a new chief curator, Helen Molesworth, effective February 22. A distinguished scholar, writer, and curator, Molesworth comes to the ICA from the Harvard Art Museum where she served as head of the department of modern and contemporary art and the museum’s Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art. “When Harvard announced the appointment of Helen Molesworth, I was struck by the brilliance of the hire,” says Jill Medvedow, director [...]