People & Places
A rendering of the enhanced Mcnay Art Museum.
The Mcnay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, breaks ground on its $6.25 million landscape master plan, with the goal of enhancing the outdoor museum experience with additional works of art, “invisible” fencing, new landscaping and increased accessibility... nora Atkinson has been named Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-charge for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. Having joined the museum staff in 2014 as the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, Atkinson will oversee acquisitions, exhibitions, research, publications and more...elissa Auther is the new deputy director of curatorial affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design where she will create diverse exhibition programs and collections and foster relationships with artists...anne Kraybill, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Richard M. Scaife Director/ceo, was selected by the National Arts Strategies to join their Chief Executive Program’s fifth cohort...the University of
Chicago’s department of art history has received a $1 million gift from activist and philanthropist Suzanne Deal Booth to help fund art conservation courses and internships. The endowment builds upon the efforts of a five-year conservation teaching collaboration implemented by the department in the spring of last year...the Arkansas Arts Center has named Victoria Ramirez its new executive director. Ramirez comes with more than 20 years of executive-level museum administration experience, having led renovation projects and developed numerous exhibitions and education programs... October 21 marks the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art’s expanded campus and multi-million dollar renovations ... nor a Burnett Abrams will be the next Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Since moving to Denver in 2010, Abrams has organized more than 30 exhibitions and authored or contributed to more than a dozen accompanying publications ... the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has announced Marie A. Longo as its new director of development and external relations ... former chief curator of the Carnegie Museum of Art,
Catherine Evans has been named deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Newark Museum. Evans will play a critical role in reimagining and interpreting the museum’s collections with the goal of engaging local, national and global audiences ... frieze has announced the appointment of Eva Langret as the new artistic director of Frieze London beginning this fall...after nearly a century,
Freeman’s will be relocating its flagship location on 1808 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Center City’s prestigious 2400 Market Street. The 600,000 square-foot development features a purpose-built gallery and auction room with corporate offices above and has been recently applauded as one of the biggest and most visible mixed-use projects in Philadelphia ... the Am on Carter
Museum of American Art reopened to the public on September 14 after a three-month closure that completes the museum’s major year-long renovation project ... phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography have named Audrey Sands the new jointly appointed Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography.