People & Places
Ethan Lasser has been appointed chair for Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lasser will oversee the MFA’S world-class collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts created throughout North, Central and South America over a 3,000-year timespan. In addition, Layla Bermeo has been named MFA Boston’s new Kristin and Roger Servison Associate Curator of Paintings, Art of the Americas… The Dallas Museum of Art has named Sue Canterbury its new Pauline Gill Sullivan Curator of American Art…james R. Wehn, has been named the Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-madison. His responsibilities include overseeing the study, conservation and exhibition of the Chazen’s collection of prints, drawings and photographs…paul R. Provost has been selected as CEO of the Art Bridges Foundation, having previously served as curator of paintings, drawings and sculpture at the New-york Historical Society before joining the staff at Christie’s in New York…the New Museum in New York City has announced plans for its second building, designed by OMA/ Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. The design will replace the museum’s 50,000-squarefoot adjacent property with a new seven-story, 60,000-squarefoot building that includes three floors of galleries. This doubles the museum’s exhibition space, along with additional space for the museum’s many community and education programs…two independent auction brands, Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, and Wright in Chicago and New York have announced the merger of their business operations. Both houses will continue to operate under their individual names while sharing technology, expertise and marketing efforts…the Delaware Art Museum has added six new members to its board. The new trustees— Barak A. Bassman, Joan Bernard, Stephanie Hoopes, Sandra K. James, Mattie Moore and Christine Moritz— will bring a diversity of experience and insight as the board works toward building collections and programs at the museum… Christian Rattemeyer is the new director of the Sculpturecenter in Long Island City, New York, assuming his responsibilities on November 1. Rattemeyer comes to the contemporary arts space from the Museum of Modern Art, where he served as associate curator in the department of drawings and prints. He succeeds Mary Ceruti, who stepped down to become the executive director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis…the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles has appointed Joan Weinstein the new director of its Getty Foundation, which focuses on making grants in the field of visual arts. Weinstein, who joined the Getty in 1994, is currently serving as acting director. The J. Paul Getty Trust also announced that Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College in Atlanta, has joined the board of trustees…frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has announced the hiring of Jochen Wierich as its new curator of sculpture and sculpture exhibitions. Wierich comes to Meijer Gardens with extensive curatorial experience, having coordinated and directed exhibitions at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane, Washington.