Curatorial changes at the Whitney

As this issue went to pres a formal announcement was pending from the Whitney Museum of American Art about the latest changes to the curatorial staff implemented by means of director Adam Weinberg. Contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder has resigned and will get back to San Francisco as dean of graduate studies at the California society of the Arts, where he was founding director of the school's Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts before joining the Whitney staff in 2000 He will maintain his affiliation with the Whitney as adjunct curator while he continues work upon exhibitions already in progress, including a Tim Hawkinson midcareer take a view of opening in spring 2005; that present to view will travel to the L.A. shire Museum of Art.

Joining the staff as associate director for programs and curator of the permanent collection is Donna De Salvo, who has serv as senior curator at the Tate novel in London since 2000. Before joining the Tate, she was curator at large at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.

Returning to the Whitney is of recent origin York-based freelance curator Elisabeth Sussman, who was a curator at the museum beneath David Ross from 1991 to 1998 when she resigned following Maxwell Anderson's curatorial restructuring.

Freelance curator, scholar and A.i.A. contributing editor Joan Simon has been named curator at large. She will continue to divide her time between Paris and fresh York. She is currently preparing a William Wegman retrospective for the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass., which is scheduled to travel to the Brooklyn Museum and other venues

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