It also this week appointed a curator for contemporary African art and continues to expand its photography collection.
He expanded the department to include drawings, and in 1967 he was appointed a curator in the department of painting and sculpture.
The director of the National Zoo has ordered a sweeping review of animal care procedures and will appoint a new curator to oversee daily operations, a spokesman said today.
Tate is also becoming more active in photography, recently appointing a photography curator.
Kris received his doctorate in art history from the University of Vienna in 1922 and was appointed an assistant curator at the Vienna Kunsthistoriches museum, soon gaining a reputation as a leading authority on gems, intaglios, and goldwork.
Within five years, he was appointed an assistant curator, becoming an important conduit between the downtown world of gossip and brawls and the uptown world of money and museums.
She also enlarged their working facilities, raised their honorariums to $15,000 (she's aiming for $20,000 or $25,000) and appointed an assistant curator, Christine Kim, to organize their yearly exhibitions and brochures.
"We'll certainly be looking for certain benchmarks and expectations," she said, by ensuring, for example, that the institute appoints a curator on a timely basis.
LOS ANGELES — When this city's Museum of Contemporary Art appointed a classically trained curator from the Art Institute of Chicago as its director in 1999, many viewed it as a welcome sign that art rather than business would be kept at the forefront of one of the most dynamic museums in the country.
