Henri Loyrette's Term as Director of Musée du Louvre Renewed
By STAN PARCHIN
April 20, 2010
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| Henri Loyrette (2009). The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. |
France's Conseil des ministres, supported by Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, recently extended the contract of Henri Loyrette as Director and President of the
Musée du Louvre for a fourth three-year term.
Mr. Loyrette, 57, a specialist in 19th-century French painting and drawing, began his career as a curator at the Musée d'Orsay in 1978. He became its Director in 1994. Loyrette was appointed to lead the Musée du Louvre in 2001. Under his aegis, the museum continues to commission contemporary works by artists such as Cy Twombly and Anselm Kiefer. In addition to organizing a strong program of special exhibitions domestically and abroad, Loyrette is overseeing the construction of the Louvre-Lens branch, expected to open in 2012, and its satellite museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Source
Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, Isabelle, David A. Brenneman, et al. The Louvre and the Masterpiece (exh. cat.). Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2008.
Peter Eleey Appointed Curator of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
By STAN PARCHIN
April 16, 2010
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| Peter Eleey. Photograph by Cameron Wittig. |
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center announced today the appointment of Peter Eleey as Curator, effective July 1, 2010. Currently the Visual Arts Curator at the Walker Art Center since 2007, Mr. Eleey will organize special exhibitions, arrange public programs, oversee the staff and help develop long-range plans at this affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art.
ExperiencePeter Eleey was a curator and producer at Creative Time in New York from 2002 to 2007. He organized many multidisciplinary projects and events, including: Cai Guo-Qiang's
Light Cycle (2003), a pyrotechnic event in Central Park;
Jenny Holzer: For the City (2004), a series of airplane banners over the Hudson River and light projections at various New York sites;
The Plain of Heaven (2005), an exhibition in a vacant meatpacking warehouse inspired by the redesign of the High Line;
Strange Powers (2006), a presentation of works made to have a paranormal effect on the world;
Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum (2007), a site-specific installation at the Essex Street Market; and
Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers (2007).
At the Walker Art Center, Eleey acquired works by Tomma Abts, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Pierre Huyghe, Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Susan Philips and others. others. He expanded the museum’s conceptual holdings with key pieces by Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Stephen Kaltenbach and Adrian Piper. Eleey organized the exhibitions
Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing (2008),
The Quick and the Dead (2009) and
The Talent Show (2010).
Klaus Biesenbach, Director of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, said, “Through his excellent work at the Walker Art Center, and previously in New York at Creative Time, Peter Eleey has emerged as one of the most talented curators of his generation. He is thoughtful and inventive and has demonstrated a strong commitment to artists in his work."
Permalink: http://artmuseumjournal.com/peter_eleey.aspx Mary Miller to Lecture on Pre-Columbian Art at NGA
By STAN PARCHIN
April 5, 2010
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| Mary Miller. Photograph provided by National Gallery of Art. |
Mary Miller, dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art, presents
Art and Representation in the Ancient New World, the 59th A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A world-renowned scholar of Maya art and civilization, Miller examines the evolution of the field of pre-Columbian art over the last four decades in five lectures:
April 18: The Shifting Now of the Pre-Columbian Past;
April 25: Seeing Time, Hearing Time, Placing Time;
May 2: The Body of Perfection, the Perfection of the Body;
May 9: Representation and Imitation; and
May 16: Envisioning a New World.
All presentations take place on Sundays at 2:00 P.M. in the NGA's East Building Auditorium. They are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
Dr. Miller takes as her starting point the works of art themselves, questions inherent in them and the results of modern study and historiography. In this way, her series explains how the body of pre-Columbian art helps one to understand grand principles that transcend cultural boundaries.
Professor Mary Miller curated the special exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (2004-05). A Guggenheim Fellowship winner and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the author of The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (1986), The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (with Linda Schele, 1986), The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion (with Karl Taube, 1993), Maya Art and Architecture (1999), Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (2004) and The Aztec Calendar Stone (with Khristaan D. Villela, 2010). Miller is completing her archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico.
Richard Aste Appointed Curator of European Art at Brooklyn Museum
By STAN PARCHIN
April 5, 2010
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| Richard Aste. Photograph provided by Brooklyn Museum. |
The
Brooklyn Museum announced today the appointment of Richard Aste as its new Curator of European Art. Currently the Associate Curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, he has worked extensively with that institution's important collection of 18th- and 19th-century French paintings and sculptures as well as its prints and drawings.
Education
Richard Aste received master's degrees from Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. His studies focused on the Italian Renaissance. They included two years in Florence researching Michelangelo.
Experience
Aste lectured in art history at Hunter College for several years. He was a specialist in Old Master paintings and drawings at Christie's. He also held positions at Wildenstein & Co., Inc. and Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc.
At Museo de Arte de Ponce, Aste curated the special exhibitions Masterpieces of Spanish Painting from the Prado and The Journey to Impressionism. He co-curated The Age of Rodin and Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce. Aste is presently engaged in the museum's reinstallation of 13 permanent collection galleries.
Mary Schneider Enriquez Appointed as Harvard Art Museum Curator
By STAN PARCHIN
April 2, 2010
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| Mary Schneider Enriquez. Photograph provided by Harvard Art Museum. |
The
Harvard Art Museum announced today the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5, 2010. She has been the museum's Latin American art advisor since 2002.
Education and Experience
Mary Schneider Enriquez received her A.B. (1981) and A.M. (1987) from Harvard University. She is completing her Ph.D. in Harvard's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Schneider Enriquez has served as a member of the university's Advisory Committee for its David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies since 1995. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston since 1999. The scholar is currently a visiting lecturer in fine arts at Brandeis University.
An independent art critic, Schneider Enriquez has written for
ARTnews,
ArtNexus and
Art in America magazines. She curated the special exhibition
Gerardo Suter: Labyrinth of Memory (1999) at the Americas Society and the Sculpture Center. The author also co-curated
Matta: Making the Invisible Visible (2004) at the McMullen Museum of Art.
At the Harvard Art MuseumSchneider Enriquez is a member of the Harvard Art Museum’s World Visuality Committee. The group is dedicated to addressing societies and their artistic traditions that have previously been underrepresented at the institution. It also emphasizes collaboration with the university's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, among other entities. At the museum, Schneider Enriquez co-curated
Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (2001).
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum, said, “With Mary Schneider Enriquez's long and varied background in the art world, especially in Latin America, and as someone who already has an intimate knowledge of the Art Museum and Harvard University, she brings a distinct perspective to this position.”
Kelly M. O'Brien Named Executive Director of Development at PMA
By STAN PARCHIN
April 1, 2010
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| Kelly M. O'Brien. Photograph provided by Philadelphia Museum of Art. |