People & Places
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has announced Christina Nielsen as the Hannah and Russell Kully Director of the Art Collections. Nielsen comes from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, and has also served in roles at the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art…the Norton Museum of Art has named art historian and curator Elliot Bostwick Davis the director and CEO, succeeding Hope Alswang. Davis comes from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and will assume the directorship on March 2, 2019…Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as the design architect for the new Princeton University Art Museum. The new building will present a dramatically enlarged space for the exhibition and study of the museum’s collection…yale University has received a contribution of more than $160 million from Edward P. Bass, class of 1967, to go towards the renovation of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. The gift will help fund the renewal and expansion of the museum, which has stood at its current location for over 90 years…susan R.
Ewing has been named interim director at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Ewing served as a professor and administrator at the Miami University of Ohio for more than three decades before her appointment to Cranbrook… kasmin has announced that Tianyue Jiang will join the gallery as director. Jiang will spearhead exhibitions across Kasmin’s four gallery spaces and lead strategic development in Asia, which includes expanding the gallery client base in the region and introducing more Asian artists to the gallery’s program…larry Smallwood has been named deputy director of the Clark Art Institute. He comes to the institute from Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, where he served as deputy director and chief operating officer… Dallas Museum of Art has appointed Michelle Rich as the Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas. Rich will join the museum after completing two Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art…louis Marchesano is the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new senior curator of prints, drawings and photographs. He takes over for Innis Shoemaker, who retired earlier this year…museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland has appointed Courtenay Finn chief curator. Finn will oversee a new Gund Foundation-funded curatorial fellowship, and joins the museum from Aspen Art Museum…sally Tallant, director of the Liverpool Biennial, Lauren Haynes, curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American
Art, and Dan Byers, director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, have been selected to curate sections for the 2019 Armory Show…montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has announced the appointment of Angie Dodson as its new director… The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has expanded its curatorial department. Kristen Gaylord joins as the assistant curator of photographs and Spencer Wigmore will serve as the assistant curator of painting, sculpture and works on paper.