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Post number 15521

msippey — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:51:01 -0800

SFMOMA appoints Neal Benezra as new director. Benezra was formerly the deputy director and curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, and replaces David Ross, who left the museum in a hurry last August to become chairman of the board of Eyestorm. During his tenure, Ross spent $140 million on acquisitions for the museum; Elaine McKeon, chairwoman of the Museum's board told the NYTimes that "We will still continue purchasing works of art, but we are going to move more slowly." Benezra has ties to Hunk and Moo Anderson, and wrote the catalog essay for the 2000 show of the Anderson collection. Could this mean that the Anderson collection will eventually be gifted to SFMOMA? (sfgate story, nytimes story)

By: judith

judith — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:26:22 -0800

that sfgate story. should be interesting to see what this brings the museum on a curatorial level as well as an acquisition level...

By: msippey

msippey — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:56:36 -0800

thanks for posting the correct url, judith... (d'oh!)

By: heather

heather — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:02:19 -0800

does that mean that we can return some of the loot from 010101?

By: msippey

msippey — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:03:23 -0800

(oh, and speaking of gifts... i wonder what the disposition of the kramlich collection will end up being...)