Observer
  • Business
  • Art
  • Lifestyle
Newsletters
  • Business
    • Finance
    • Media
    • Technology
    • Policy
    • Wealth
    • Insights
    • Interviews
  • Art
    • Art Fairs
    • Art Market
    • Art Reviews
    • Auctions
    • Galleries
    • Museums
    • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
    • Nightlife & Dining
    • Style
    • Travel
    • Interviews
  • Power Lists
    • Nightlife & Dining
    • Art
    • A.I.
    • PR
  • About
    • About Observer
    • Advertise With Us
    • Reprints
Newsletters

Museum Directors

A man in a black shirt wearing a series expression stares angrily into the camera

Newly Appointed Madre Director Eugenio Viola Sees the Museum as a Living Archive

The curator of Italy's 2022 Venice Biennale pavilion has returned to the museum where his career took shape after years working in Australia and Latin America. His vision for the institution includes rethinking its collection displays, broadening its funding and anchoring its program in the Mediterranean.
By Dan Duray
A man wearing a blue blazer and a pink shirt stands in front of a landscape painting

Michael J. Anderson Grew OKCMOA’s Collection by 30 Percent. Now He’s Bringing His Approach to Portland.

The incoming director arrives from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where he added important works to the collection and built relationships focused on inclusivity and accessibility. He inherits the Portland Art Museum's newly opened $111 million Rothko Pavilion, along with a film program, PAM CUT, that plays directly to his own background as a film curator.
By Dan Duray
A man in a navy checkered blazer and light blue shirt stands in a contemporary art gallery, surrounded by colorful paintings and sculptures.

At 100, the High Is Considering What It Means to Be a 21st Century Museum

Director Rand Suffolk describes the museum's role as involving both bonding and bridging: letting people see themselves in its collections while bringing Atlantans of different backgrounds together. He measures success by whether visitors leave seeing the world differently than when they arrived.
By Elisa Carollo
A street-level view of the PARKSEOBO MUSEUM, showing its dark blue-green geometric facade, exposed concrete base and white upper volumes against a clear blue sky.

Seoul’s ParkSeoBo Museum Is More Than a Temple to Its Namesake

By Elisa Carollo
A woman in a dark top and white pants stands in a research space in a museum

Tone Hansen Takes the Helm at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet With a Newly Expanded Mandate

By Dan Duray
A smiling woman in a black leather jacket stands with arms folded in the foreground; in the background is a brick building that is part of the NYU campus, specifically, the Gray Art Museum.

Grey Art Museum’s Alison Weaver On the Breadth of the University Museum Mandate

By Dan Duray
A smiling man in a navy suit and white shirt poses with his arms crossed against a plain white background.

Honolulu Museum of Art Director David Odo On Centering Hawaiʻi in the Institution’s Mission

By Elisa Carollo
A cavernous, rock-like sculptural environment fills a museum gallery, extending toward a glass doorway and contrasting with the building’s clean white architecture.

How Nicola Lees Recentered the Aspen Art Museum Around Artists Instead of Objects

By Elisa Carollo
An exterior view of MOCA in NYC, lit brightly from within, at dusk

MOCA Rising: How New York’s Chinese American Museum Is Redefining the American Canon

By Christa Terry
A spacious white gallery displays large monochrome red, yellow and blue textured paintings on the wall and four brightly patterned cube sculptures on a low central platform.

At the Parrish Art Museum, Tony Bechara’s 60-Year Career Gets Its First Full Reckoning

By Dan Duray
A group of ten people stands in a line on a sunny New York sidewalk outside a glass-fronted building, with reflections of the Bowery visible behind them.

Stefanie Hessler’s Vision for Swiss Institute’s New Permanent Bowery Home

By Elisa Carollo
A person with short curly hair wearing round dark sunglasses and a dark suit stands outdoors in front of blurred green foliage, looking slightly to the side.

Philippe Vergne Arrives at the Bass in Miami Ready to Curate Again

By Dan Duray
An overhead exterior photo shows a crowd gathered outside the MOCAD building for an event, with speakers, chairs and the museum’s entrance visible.

MOCAD’s Co-Directors On What a Museum Owes a Changing City

By Brianna J. Heath
An image of a man in blue in the foreground with a museum at dusk in the background

Séamus Kealy On Returning to Ireland, Artist-Centered Institutions and What the RHA Could Become

By Dan Duray
An installation view shows a shiny, brightly colored sculpture of oversized metallic balloon-like flowers displayed in a white museum gallery.

The Crisis of the Museum Is the Crisis of the White Cube

By Paco Barragán
An exterior photograph shows a white museum building with red-framed glass doors, a paved entrance courtyard, outdoor seating and surrounding trees in late-afternoon light.

The Aldrich’s First Decennial Takes Stock of Contemporary Art in Connecticut

By Dan Duray
A wide aerial view of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, showing the museum’s modern buildings with curved roofs, illuminated from within, surrounded by wooded landscape and reflecting ponds at dusk. The campus pathways and bridges connecting structures are visible, emphasizing the integration of architecture, art, and nature.

An Art Lover’s Guide to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (and Its Expansion)

By Elisa Carollo
A woman wearing black stands with her hands in her pockets in an empty exhibition space

De Pont Director Maria Schnyder On Why Financial Independence Is a Museum’s Greatest Asset

By Dan Duray
A grayscale portrait of a suit-wearing man photographed from the waist up.

Charles Chemin Has Been Training to Lead Watermill His Whole Life

By Dan Duray
The M+ museum's illuminated media façade stands prominently in the Hong Kong skyline, highlighting the museum’s integration with the city's urban landscape.

Inside M+’s Mission to Shape Asia’s Art Canon, With Chief Curator Doryun Chong

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of a smiling woman in a white button shirt foregrounds a photo of the Queens Museum taken at last dusk

Inside Debra Wimpfheimer’s Vision for the Queens Museum

By Dan Duray
A bearded man with white hair and glasses holds a microphone to his mouth

Francesco Bonami’s Case Against Trend-Chasing in the Museum Business

By Dan Duray
A portrait of Anthony Kiendl shows him smiling and leaning against a wooden railing on an outdoor terrace, dressed in a dark suit and glasses, with a blurred urban skyline in the background.

Anthony Kiendl On Unlocking MCA Denver’s Potential and Upending Art World Hierarchies

By Dan Duray
The directors of Hamburger Bahnhof standing beside an industrial beam inside the museum.

Hamburger Bahnhof’s Sam Bardaouil On Co-Leading a Museum in Flux

By Elisa Carollo
More
  • ART
  • BUSINESS
  • LIFESTYLE
  • POWER LISTS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • ABOUT
  • ADVERTISE
  • CONTACT
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • RSS FEEDS
  • SITEMAP
  • TERMS
  • PRIVACY
  • REPRINTS
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Cookie Settings
  • Do not sell my data
Powered by WordPress VIP

We noticed you're using an ad blocker.

We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience.
But advertising revenue helps support our journalism.

To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.
We'd really appreciate it.

How Do I Whitelist Observer?

How Do I Whitelist Observer?

Below are steps you can take in order to whitelist Observer.com on your browser:

For Adblock:

Click the AdBlock button on your browser and select Don't run on pages on this domain.

For Adblock Plus on Google Chrome:

Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Enabled on this site.

For Adblock Plus on Firefox:

Click the AdBlock Plus button on your browser and select Disable on Observer.com.

Then Reload the Page