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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
The task should have been simple for an executive search firm like m/Oppenheim Associates. The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields was paying the company to help bring a new director through its doors. But the job listing on the search firm’s website created an explosive controversy when it expressly requested that applicants help attract not only a more diverse crowd, but also maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience.”
Frieze Editors Discuss What the Art World Has Learned in 2020
COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter were two of the major events that signalled the changes that may – and in many cases must – come next year
Andrew Durbin Let’s start broadly. Has COVID-19 changed the art world forever or just temporarily?
Pablo Larios I see three areas in which COVID-19 has accelerated permanent changes that were already underway in the art world: digitization, relocalization and funding. We’ve become much more comfortable looking at (and reviewing) exhibitions online yet there’s a renewed sense of local attention, too: intuitively, it suddenly matters more what’s going on in your own neighbourhood than an art event opening across the world you won’t see anyway.
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Alyssa Nitchun, who takes over as executive director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art on 15 February Khaled Jarrar, courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York announced today that it had appointed Alyssa Nitchun, a culture and design consultant and former acting executive director at the public art organisation Creative Time, as its next executive director.
Nitchum, who takes over on 15 February, will advance socially concerned programming and seek financial stability and an international profile for the museum, which is dedicated to championing LGBTQ art and the artists who create it. She succeeds Laura Raicovich, a former director of the Queens Museum of Art who has served as interim director of the Leslie-Lohman since its closure in March.