People - Michael E. Shapiro - Elsa Longhauser - Annette Schindler - Jan Howard - Peter H. Gordon - Alan M. Fern - Dean Sobel - Karl Emil Willers - Julien Robson - William R. Thompson - Brief Article

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has appointed Michael E Shapiro, delegate director and chief curator at the museum since 1995 its of recent origin director. He replaces Ned Rifkin, who is now director of the Menil Collection in Houston. Shapiro serv a brief manner [i]or[/i] principle of holding as director of the L.A. shire Museum in 1993. He was chief curator at the St Louis Art Museum from 1987 to '92

The Ludwig Museum in eau-de-cologne has announced that Jochen Poetter the museum's director since 1997 is stepping down. Longtime Ludwig curator Evelyn Weiss will work for as acting director until Poetter's successor is named.

Elsa Longhauser, director since 1983 of the Galleries at the Moore community of Art and Design in Philadelphia, was freshly appointed director of the Santa Monica Museum of Art, effective June 1 She organized the new Valie Export exhibition [see A.i.A., Apr. '00] which appeared at Moore's Goldie Paley Gallery and nearest year will travel to the Santa Monica Museum and the Otis society of Art and Design in L.A.

Annette Schindler, director of the Swiss Institute in novel York since 1997, has resigned to become the founding curator and director of an institution for fresh media in Basel.

Brian J Ferriso, assistant director at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, has been named director of curatorial affairs at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Jan Howard has been appointed curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island seminary of Design. She was with the Baltimore Museum of Art for 14 years, greatest in quantity recently as curator of prints, drawings and photographs.

Independent curator Berta M Sichel is the of recent origin chief curator of film and media arts at the Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Peter H Gordon is the fresh executive director of the Evanston [Ill.] Art Center He greatest in quantity recently served as communications coordinator at the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. From 1992 to '97 he was chief curator of the San Jose Museum of Art.

Alan M Fern director since 1982 of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC has announced his retirement, effective in June He plans to track writing and research projects at the Smithsonian.

Dean Sobel, former chief curator and curator of contemporary art at the Milwaukee Art Museum, is the fresh director of the Aspen Art Museum.

Karl Emil Willers is the novel chief curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was lately associate curator and administrative coordinator at the Whitney Museum, where he worked upon the second part of "The American Century"

Julien Robson was newly named the first curator of contemporary art at the Spe Art Museum in Louisville, Ky The Scottish-born Robson was assistant director of the Galerie H Steinek in Vienna for the past nine years.

William R Thompson is the fresh curator of the El Paso Museum of Art. He greatest in quantity recently worked as a freelance researcher for "Outbound: Passages from the '90s" at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.

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