Isolde Brielmaier appointed Deputy Director of New Museum
Isolde Brielmaier. Photo by Quil Lemons.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, announced today the appointment of Isolde Brielmaier to the position of Deputy Director of the New Museum. Brielmaier will begin in her new role on September 1, 2021, succeeding Karen Wong, who has served as the institutions Deputy Director for nine years, having joined the Museum as Director of External Affairs in 2006.
Brielmaier comes to the New Museum with over two decades of non-profit and private sector experience, specializing in exhibitions, scholarship, strategic planning, partnerships, digital strategy, events, and social impact initiatives. Having received her PhD in art history from Columbia University, she brings to her new post an exceptional range of experience spanning academia, the museum field, and the corporate sector. Brielmaier has also served on the New Museum Board of Trustees sinc
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.- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. Thats nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the buildings darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. Ive been looking forward to this day from the beginning, Kohl said. Im here to see if it delivers on what it proposed. Kohl, 63, was there to see Terrible Beauty, a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germanys equivalent to the Louvre, the Hu
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New Museum appoints Salome Asega as Director of NEW INC
Salome Asega. Photo by Jeremy Grier.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, announced today that Salome Asega will become director of NEW INC, the New Museums cultural incubator they co-founded in 2013. In September 2021, NEW INC will welcome members to its eighth yearlong cycle. Asega will oversee one hundred creative entrepreneurs, a community of six hundred alumni, and a distinguished group of mentors, steering plans for future growth.
Asega joins from the Ford Foundation, where she has served as the inaugural New Media Art Research Fellow for Creativity and Free Expression (CFE) for the past four years. The CFE program supports arts and culture, journalism and media, and documentary film through grants, convenings, networking, and advising. In her role at Ford, she supported research to define hybrid approaches in the art and technology ecosystem.
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