Sentences with phrase «as museum director»

When Duncan Phillips died in 1966, just one month short of his 80th birthday, he was succeeded as museum director by his wife Marjorie.

Jeffrey Deitch co-curated the first successful year of the project in 2009, collaborating with Tony before his appointment as museum director of MOCA Los Angeles.

The resignations follow the recent ousting of chief curator Paul Schimmel, who had closely shaped MOCA's exhibition program until gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch was hired two years ago as museum director.

As a museum director, Desmarais has served at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1995 - 2004); the Laguna Art Museum (1988 - 1994); and the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside (1981 - 1988).

His 50 - year career as museum director started at the Pasadena (Calif.) Art Museum, where he introduced the work of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell to the American public.

Duncan Phillips passed away in 1966, to be succeeded him as museum director first by his wife Marjorie (in 1966), and then his son Laughlin (in 1972), who placed The Phillips Collection on a more secure footing.

In addition to his career as a museum director, Snoddy has made abstract paintings.

Anderson started his career as a museum director at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum in 1987.

Charles Young, who served 17 months as MOCA's interim chief executive between Broad's rescue and the mid-2010 arrival of Jeffrey Deitch as museum director, said the fundraising announcement was «heartening.»

In 1951, the directors of the Foundation forced Rebay to step down as Museum Director, and changed the name of the museum to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

«The values of Michael Shapiro and his team resonate greatly with my goals as a museum director, and they have set an outstanding precedent for ensuring visitor engagement.

Now, he's turning to the art; he just hired as his museum director, Allison Agsten, curator of public engagement at the Hammer Museum.

Wahler has curated over 400 exhibitions around the globe, principally as museum director / chief curator, but also as a consultant and independent curator, including From Synchrony to Synchronicity (Basel, 2015), a large - scale installation with fireflies, crickets, and algorithmic music by Swiss artist Robin Meier that explored the principles of order in nature and collective intelligence.

But as we were getting off the phone, wrapping up a conversation peppered with more architects» names than artists», he said his training and experience as an architect had profoundly influenced his leadership style as a museum director.

Served as a museum director for almost thirty years in Atlanta, Toronto, New York City, Indianapolis, and Dallas.

The results alternately emphasized or suppressed traces of the artist's hand and, as Museum director James Steward notes, «afford the viewer a remarkable opportunity to simply revel in the sheer beauty and freedom of abstract painting.»

He is a socio - cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, though I have also been trained in archaeology and have worked as a professional archaeologist and briefly as a museum director.

He added: «As I enter a new role as a public servant, I will be leaving partisan politics behind me and will work impartially as a museum director.

He then had a stint as a museum director in East Germany before moving to Florida to work as an auto parts dealer.

For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday June 11, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 40 words Type of Material: Correction Nat Sutton: An article in today's Calendar about the growing number of women serving as museum directors says Nat Sutton is a managing partner of Korn / Ferry International, an executive search firm.

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Though it's easy to miss it in the hubbub of rush hour, the subway system actually doubles as something of an underground contemporary art museum, thanks to the efforts of MTA Arts & Design, led by director Sandra Bloodworth.

In addition to his work at Laricina, Schmidt is a trustee of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Science and Technology, a director for Argent Energy Trust and Whitehorn Resources Inc., as well as past chairman and currently a director of the In Situ Oil Sands Alliance (IOSA).

The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present - day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.

After, Chang took her talents to New York City to Danny Meyer's restaurant in The Museum of Modern Art, THE MODERN, as Wine and Service Director where she led the team to the James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine Program in 2011.

The man responsible for the contagion — the Typhoid Mary of the epidemic, as it were — is 54 - year - old Art McKee, the director of the Museum of Sunken Treasure in the Florida Keys.

Though he denied accusations that the museum will sell the new directorships to the highest bidder, he said the facility does need new directors who can pledge their personal funds as well as their time and business acumen.

The Park District Board unanimously voted down the proposal for new directors last week at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, who serves as the district representative on the museum board.

Jill Doub Named to Key Leadership Role at Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - Chicago Tribune - June 15, 2015 The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the urban gateway to nature and science, is proud to name Jill Doub as its new Senior Director of Public Engagement.

The brick Victorian mansion is one of only two original 19th Century buildings at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. «We are truly delighted to be one of the museums selected by the governor as a recipient of funds from the Museum Capital Grants Program,» said Naper Settlement Executive Director Peggy Frank.

Rick Pyle, director of parks, recreation and museum, suggested the sites could have several picnic tables in the woods and 3/4 of an acre could remain a water detention area that could be used as an athletic field when dry.

Previously, Gordon served as education coordinator and camp director at Mass Audubon's Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton.

More recently, Gordon served as education coordinator and camp director at Mass Audubon's Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton.

«We are truly delighted to be one of the museums selected by the governor as a recipient of funds from the Museum Capital Grants Program,» said Naper Settlement Executive Director Peggy Frank.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

The prominent Corbyn critic will trigger a by - election as he becomes the Victoria and Albert Museum's new director, I have learned.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped Tom Finkelpearl, the executive director of the Queens Museum, as the city's next cultural - affairs commissioner.

Museum Director Aurora McCaffrey said the staff were jazzed about the prospects for more publicity as a result of the high - profile visit.

Labour has never lost the constituency since its creation in 1950 but the resignation of Tristram Hunt to take up a job as the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum was seen as a major opportunity to test Ukip's strategy of making progress in Brexit - leaning Labour heartlands.

Mr. Byer - Tyre, who formerly served as director of the African - American Museum of Nassau County in Hempstead, called the dolls «representational» and said they allow children to see themselves in the context of history.

«This idea of having a museum — and it was his vision, at that time, that it be a contemporary - art venue — as part of public education at a higher institution is really a pretty amazing and significant contribution, and has been a lasting contribution to this campus, certainly,» said Corinna Ripps Schaming, curator and interim director.

Hunt left the House of Commons to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum after serving as an MP for seven years.

Adirondack Scenic Railroad Executive Director Bethan Maher said: «The construction of the beer museum and casino will highlight the history of the neighborhood and be viewed as an opportunity to cohesively brand the area as a destination within Oneida County and the City of Utica.

About Jennifer Walden Weprin Walden Weprin hails from the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum visMuseum in Corona as Director of Marketing & External Affairs since 2011, where she designed and implemented a marketing and programming strategy that yielded a 21 percent increase in museum vismuseum visitors.

I have been elected to serve for a decade or longer on a variety of deliberative non-profit boards, including Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York's Fraunces Tavern Museum Board of Managers since 2002 and Queens Community Board 11 (ten years) and especially as president of such bodies including Westmoreland (property owners) Association Board of Directors (17 years) and Little Neck Community Association Board of Directors (ten years).

Stephanie Shultes has been with the museum for 30 years, beginning as a volunteer and is now the newly appointed director.

They met about five years ago, shortly after Mr. Stringer's 2005 election as borough president, when she visited his office to introduce herself and the Jewish Museum, where she is director of corporate and government relations.

Such information makes the images nearly as useful as the actual specimens, which many museums hesitate to send out for fear of loss or damage, says Barbara Thiers, associate director of the herbarium.

Neil Chalmers, director of the Natural History Museum, and one of the advisers on the initiative, is critical of «the disparity between the magnitude of the initiative as announced by John Major in Rio and the funding on offer».

So I went to see him at the Coryndon Museum [where Leakey was director], and he ended up offering me a job as his secretary.

Professor Ian Owens, Director of Science at the Natural History Museum, says this research is a great example of how natural history collections support high - impact scientific research that addresses challenging questions such as the diversity of life.