People & Places
A rendering of the courtyard at The Momentary, a satellite location of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Elizabeth Beaman is the new senior advisor at Megan Fox Kelly Art Advisory. Beaman will open the new Los Angeles office, serving clients on the West Coast and throughout the country...a new satellite location for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, contemporary art space The Momentary, opens on February 22 in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas...lena Stringari was named deputy director and Andrew W. Mellon Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Stringari is responsible for the care and treatment of the collection and direction of the Guggenheim’s conservation-focused programs, among other duties...the Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed Mary Savig as the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft. Savig’s duties include research into collection objects, acquiring artworks for the museum’s permanent collection, as well as collection displays at the museum’s Renwick Gallery and organizing exhibitions about craft/maker culture...karli Wurzelbacher joins the Heckscher Museum of Art as its new curator. Wurzelbacher previously served in curatorial roles at Hunter College Art Galleries and the Columbus Museum of Art…the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has named Laura Minton curator of exhibitions. Minton joins the Fralin from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Fralin Museum has also promoted curatorial assistant Hannah Cattarin to assistant curator .... Artist Rebecca Salter has been elected the first female President in the Royal Academy’s 251-year history. Salter was elected by fellow Royal Academicians and succeeds former president Christopher Le Brun…philbrook Museum of Art has named Sara
O’keeffe its new Nancy E. Meinig Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. In past roles, O’keeffe served as associate curator at the New Museum, New York and worked in the curatorial department at the Guggenheim Museum... Katherine Hlavin is the new director, specialist of Western art for Hindman. Hlavin started at the firm in June 2017 as director of business development, Western Region at the Denver location...patrick Noon, senior curator of paintings and Elizabeth Macmillan Chair of the Department of Paintings for the Minneapolis Institute of Art retired on January 31. Noon spent 22 years at MIA, playing major roles in the reinstallations of collections during both the 1998 and 2006 museum expansions... Estella Chung has been appointed chief curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society beginning March 2. Previously, Chung worked in various capacities at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens for 12 years...
The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia announced that it has appointed Cecilia Alemani as the director of the visual arts department. Alemani is tasked with planning and curating the upcoming 59th International Art Exhibition…the MFA Houston’s new Kinder building will make the Texas museum the fourth largest art museum in the United States in terms of exhibition space. The building, designed by architect Steven Holl, is set to open in fall 2020...Richard Gray Gallery has announced the appointment of Sharon Kim as Partner beginning summer of 2020. Kim joins Gray following a 26-year tenure at Christie’s New York where she currently serves as International Director of Impressionist & Modern Art.