![]() A new executive director for the Museum of Contemporary Art will be announced, but an email to Times journalists is the real puzzler. “Įntertainment & Arts Commentary: Why this bizarre email represents larger problems at MOCA By pursuing these goals and supporting the efforts of MOCA’s team, I’m looking forward to extending the museum’s legacy while strengthening bonds both within the institution and with the public. MOCA’s “artist-centered mission,” Burton said in the announcement, “dovetails with my own commitment to creating platforms that foster artistic innovation and emphasize deep connections to audiences. “I’m very happy to see they selected a woman - a first for MOCA and a good partner for Klaus,” she said, adding that although Burton is a “fairly new museum director,” she also “brings a great set of skills to this position - not just executive and managerial skills, but she has stellar curatorial and academic chops as well.” Artist Mark Grotjahn, also white, initially accepted the honor but later declined, citing “a new urgency to change the power dynamic.”īurton is a step in that direction, said Hammer Director Ann Philbin. In 2018 it canceled a gala fundraiser after protests over the lack of diversity among former gala honorees, all of whom were straight white men. Four arrived from New York.Īlthough MOCA has a female-led board with Seferian as chair, Carolyn Powers as president and Heather Podesta as treasurer, the museum has struggled with diversity. That the new executive director is a woman is significant. She guest-curated the 2014 Hammer Museum exhibition “Take It or Leave It.” ![]() ![]() Before joining the Wexner, Burton was director and curator of education and public engagement at New York’s New Museum, where she organized the 2017 exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.” Before that, she was director of the graduate program at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies and associate director for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. ![]()
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