Did you all catch that cheery curatorial class picture, in yesterday’s NY Times, of the inaugural fellows of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, which was established last June to train art curators for museum directorships?
Let me provide what was missing from the NY Times article, by identifying those fine faces in the photo:
Back row, left to right:
Raymond Horton, Lautenberg Professor of Governance and Ethics, Columbia Business School, Colin Bailey, Gary Tinterow, Elizabeth Easton [co-founder of CCL], Liz Armstrong, Laurie Winters
Front row, left to right:
Richard Rand, Zoé Whitley, Paola Morsiani, Eleanor Harvey, Jordana Pomeroy, Silvia Cubiña
But wait, there’s more. Get a load of the big names who are serving as mentors and residency supervisors for this merry band of aesthetes. There seems to be a pecking order revealed here: See who got assignments with Emily Rafferty and Henri Loyrette; William Griswold and Max Anderson; Reynold Levy (president of Lincoln Center) and Neil MacGregor; and…what, no Philippe de Montebello?
For Elizabeth Armstrong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Orange County Museum of Art—
Mentor: Jock Reynolds, Director, Yale University Art Gallery
Residency: James Cuno, Director, Art Institute of Chicago
For Colin B. Bailey, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, Frick Collection—
Mentor: Emily Rafferty, President, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Residency: Henri Loyrette, President and Director, Musée du Louvre
For Silvia Karman Cubiña, Director and Chief Curator, Moore Space, Miami—
Mentor: Thelma Golden, Director, Studio Museum in Harlem
Residency: Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum
For Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum—
Mentor: Gail Andrews, Director, Birmingham Museum of Art
Residency: Mary Sue Sweeney Price, Director, Newark Museum
For Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art—
Mentor: Susana Torruella Leval, Director Emeritus, El Museum del Barrio
Residency: Anne Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum
For Jordana Pomeroy, Senior Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts—
Mentor: Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum at Duke University
Residency: Mimi Gardner Gates, Director, Seattle Art Museum
For Richard Rand, Senior Curator, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute—
Mentor: William Griswold, Director, The Morgan Library & Museum
Residency: Maxwell Anderson, Director, Indianapolis Museum of Art
For Gary Tinterow, Curator in Charge, Nineteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art—
Mentor: Reynold Levy, President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Residency: Neil MacGregor, Director, The British Museum
For Zoé Nicole Whitley, Curator, Contemporary Programmes, Victoria and Albert Museum, London—
Mentor: Axel Ruger, Director, Van Gogh Museum
Residency: Olga Viso, Director, Walker Art Center
For Laurie Winters, Curator of Earlier European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum—
Mentor: Brent Benjamin, Director, Saint Louis Art Museum
Residency: Michael Shapiro, Director, High Museum of Art
Is Eleanor Jones Harvey aiming for next female director of the Association of Art Museum Directors? Both of her role models have held that post.