Brooklyn Seeks “Exhibitions Division” Curators; Getty Hires Associate Director for Collections

You’ve read about the controversial organizational changes at the Brooklyn Museum: Traditional subject-area departments were eliminated, in favor of two ”teams”—collections and exhibitions.
Now’s your very own chance to be an exhibitions team player! Recently hit by key staff departures (including: Elizabeth Easton, curator of European painting and sculpture; and Marilyn Kushner, curator of prints, drawings and photographs), Brooklyn is advertising (see ArtsJournal’s homepage ) for two new staff members—“extraordinary communicator/scholars,” to serve as curators in its new “Exhibitions Division”:
While strongly competitive applications are anticipated from among those currently holding positions as art museum curators, the Museum also solicits applications from authors, academics, journalists, specialists in electronic and new media communications, and others with strong art history backgrounds.
They want JOURNALISTS? As curators? Now if only I can locate my résumé. The hours are good at 35 per week. But one thing’s for sure: Traditionalists need not apply.
Meanwhile, the J. Paul Getty Museum, also hit by staff defections (under the Getty Trust’s deposed president, Barry Munitz), has just hired David Bomford as associate director for collections. He comes to Los Angeles in April from his current post as senior restorer of paintings at the National Gallery, London.
Now if only the regrouping Getty Trust, previously famous for financial irregularities, could just find itself a permanent vice president for finance and administration.