by Jon Lackman | 28 September 2006 | Museums
From the Turkish Daily News: “British art historian and curator David Elliot has been appointed director of the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, museum officials announced on Thursday, and will take over the post in January 2007, reported the Anatolia news agency … Elliot, who is among the founders of the Tokyo Mori Art Museum, was the director of Britain’s Modern Art Museum in Oxford from 1976 to 1996. He served as the director of Sweden’s Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm for five years until 2001. From 1998 to 2004, he was the president of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM).”
