by Jon Lackman | 12 October 2006 | Museums
From Artnet: “The Museum of Modern Art has established a new curatorial department, Media, and has named Klaus Biesenbach as its head, making him chief curator of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and chief curator of the Department of Media. Longtime MoMA video curator Barbara London is associate curator of the new department. MoMA’s film department, now a stand-alone, is headed pro tem by Steven Higgins while a search is under way for a permanent chief curator.”
From The New York Times: “Sweeping changes in the curatorial staff at the Brooklyn Museum are causing deep dissension within the institution’s ranks, playing a part in the recent resignations of three veteran curators and of two board members, one of whom had served for more than 20 years. In July the museum did away with traditional departments like Egyptian art, African art and European painting and replaced them with two ‘teams,’ one for collections and one for exhibitions.”
