It’s been not a month since the big boatlike Whitney Museum of American Art dropped anchor on the Hudson, and the institution is already rejiggering its curatorial leadership. At a meeting with the board of trustees on May 19, director Adam Weinberg announced that Scott Rothkopf, 38, is getting a promotion to chief curator. Currently the Nancy and Steve Crown family curator and associate director of programs, his new title will be deputy director for programs and Nancy and Steve Crown family chief curator. The current chief curator, Donna De Salvo, will be moving into a newly created position: deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator.“Now that the institution is growing in both size and complexity, we needed more firepower, more oomph,” Weinberg told Seen. “What it does is give us more strength at the artistic top of the organization.” Rothkopf made a swift rise to the top of...
- 5/19/2015
- by Nate Freeman
- Vulture
Four locations and 87 years ago, the Whitney Museum of American Art was founded. Today, it was rededicated. Magnificently. Who was in this crowd of about 1,500 people — including every Whitney staff person and many guards and kids, and no Lady Gaga, James Franco, Tilda Swinton, or Marina sightings that I know of? In addition to super-patron and Zen believer in the arts Flora Miller Biddle — granddaughter of the museum's founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — sitting on stage on Gansevoort Street, looking toward the new museum, were Mayor de Blasio (a better speaker than I thought); Whitney architect Renzo Piano, who began his speech looking around at all of this, saying, "Mamma mia," and everyone in eyeshot nodded in agreement; director Adam Weinberg, who, with his deputy, Donna De Salvo, should be given keys to the city, or at least a lifetime Mta pass; some other Whitney mucky-mucks who helped...
- 4/30/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
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