Bonhams Appoints Dalia Stanley as Senior Specialist to New Australian Team

LONDON.- Bonhams announced today (24.6.10) that Dalia Stanley will join its Australian team as a Senior Specialist, an appointment that adds greatly to the company’s local strength. Bonhams is relaunching its business in Australia with the Owston Collection sale on June 25 and 26, to be followed by its first sale of Collectors Cars in the Spring. With the appointment of Dalia Stanley the company shows that its commitment to growing its Australian business with leading specialists continues apace. Dalia [...]

Former Moderna Museet Director Lars Nittve to Head Museum Plus in Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WCKDA) today announced that Mr Lars Nittve, a renowned museum director and curator with years of experience heading world-class facilities such as London’s Tate Gallery of Modern Art and Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, has been appointed Executive Director, M+ of the WCKDA. In his new capacity, Mr Nittve will be responsible for all content and exhibitions of Museum Plus (M+), a groundbreaking new museum concept planned at the future West Kowloon Cultural District [...]

Tate’s Ben Borthwick Appointed CEO and Artistic Director of Artes Mundi

LONDON.- Ben Borthwick has been appointed Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Artes Mundi – the UK’s largest art prize. Borthwick is a curator and writer who specialises in contemporary art, with particular focus on sound and socially engaged practices . He joins Artes Mundi after seven years at Tate Modern where he was Assistant Curator and curated the exhibitions including Gilbert & George, Rodchenko and Popova and the Turbine Hall installation Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials. In 2007-08, he devised [...]

AGO Appoints Elizabeth Smith As New Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs

TORONTO.- After a five-month global search, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has hired Elizabeth Smith as its new Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs. Formerly the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, Smith will oversee the Gallery’s ambitious exhibition program and collection growth, while providing senior leadership in the development of presentation strategies and production of scholarly research. She also will establish international partnerships to galvanize the AGO’s profile and produce [...]

Eleven-Year-Old Helps Birds In Oil Spill With Art

New York. – One little girl’s love of art, and concern for birds affected by the gulf oil spill, has translated into more than $100,000 raised to help clean-up efforts. Olivia Bouler’s interest in drawing started with one class, and she’s been hooked on birds since she read a book about them at age four. She loves to go bird watching, and she came up with the idea to combine two of her favorite things for a good cause. Olivia [...]

Trela Media Published The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol

NEW YORK, NY.- On June 30th, Trela Media will be rereleasing The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol by John Wilcock, originally published in 1971. Village Voice and Interview co-founder John Wilcock was first drawn into the milieu of Andy Warhol through filmmaker Jonas Mekas, assisting on some of Warhol’s early films, hanging out at his parties and quickly becoming a regular at the Factory. “About six months after I started hanging out at the old, silvery Factory on [...]

Janet Carding Appointed Royal Ontario Museum’s New Director and CEO

TORONTO.- Sal Badali, Chair of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Board of Trustees, announced today the appointment of Janet Carding as the new Director and CEO effective September 2010. Carding will be responsible for furthering the Museum’s mission, advocating for its ongoing public and private sector support, promoting its research, programs, and collections, and overseeing the management of the Museum’s operations, which include exhibitions, programs, education, visitor services, administration and facilities management. Carding is the first woman appointed to the [...]

Miami Art Museum Names Thomas “Thom” Collins as Director

MIAMI, FL.- Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM). Collins will join MAM after serving for five years as director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester County , New York . Collins’ appointment comes just as MAM begins to transition into a new [...]

David D. Holbrook Elected Chairman of Noguchi Museum Board of Trustees

NEW YORK, NY.- The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (known as The Noguchi Museum) has announced the election of David D. Holbrook as Chairman of its Board of Trustees at its Annual Meeting in May. Mr. Holbrook has been a Trustee of the Museum and member of its executive committee since 2001. He succeeds Samuel Sachs II, who has led the Board since 2005 and will continue to serve as a Museum Trustee. Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon stated, [...]

Deborah Marrow Named Interim Director and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, has been appointed interim President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, filling the position left empty by the unexpected death of President and CEO James N. Wood last week. In this capacity, she will report directly to the Getty’s Board of Trustees. “We very much appreciate Deborah’s willingness to step in during this difficult time,” said Mark S. Siegel, chairman of the J. Paul Getty Trust Board of [...]

Art Dubai Appoints Antonia Carver as Its New Fair Director

DUBAI.- The Board of Art Dubai has announced the appointment of Antonia Carver to succeed John Martin as Fair Director of Art Dubai. Antonia Carver is a writer and arts administrator, and has been widely recognized as a leading advocate of contemporary Middle Eastern art. She has been working in the arts for the past sixteen years, and brings to the fair a broad base of experience across both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Based in Dubai for the past [...]

Art Fund Director Stephen Deuchar Awarded CBE for His Service to the Public

LONDON.- Stephen Deuchar was awarded the honour for his service to the public as former director of Tate Britain from 1998 until 2009. He joined the Art Fund as director in January 2010. On receiving the award, Stephen Deuchar said: “It’s a great honour and I’m delighted. I feel privileged to have worked at Tate Britain amongst so many inspirational colleagues.” During this time at Tate, Stephen oversaw the creation of Tate Britain in 2000 at Millbank, home of the [...]

Chris Dercon Leaves Haus der Kunst for Tate Modern

MUNICH.- In spring 2011 Chris Dercon, director of the Haus der Kunst, will leave for London, where he will take over as director of the Tate Modern. He will continue to work with the Haus der Kunst supervising the exhibition, “Carlo Mollino, Rigorously Eclectic,” planned for fall 2011. His successor, to be named by the Ministry, will take up the post in fall 2011. Dercon’s first exhibition at the Haus der Kunst was a surprise for the international art world: [...]

Catalina Island Museum Appoints New Executive Director

CATALINA ISLAND, CA.- In the past year the Catalina Island Museum has demonstrated its commitment to constructing a new museum in Avalon by purchasing a centrally-located downtown property valued at nearly $2 million. The next significant step in that process has now been taken with the appointment of the museum’s new Executive Director: Dr. Michael De Marsche. Dr. De Marsche’s background is unique. He has served as the founding director of three museums, and has devoted nearly his entire twenty-year [...]

Getty Trust President and CEO James Wood Dies at Age 69

LOS ANGELES (AP).- James N. Wood, the president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who also worked for 25 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, has died. He was 69. He died unexpectedly of natural causes, Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty’s board of trustees, said in a statement Saturday. Wood was found in his Los Angeles home late Friday. Siegel paid tribute to Wood’s accomplishments during his three years at the Getty, including his focus [...]