A new Director for the NY Jewish Museum

A NEW DIRECTOR has been appointed for the Jewish Museum in New York:

The Jewish Museum Appoints Claudia Gould As Director

Wednesday, August 24, 2011; Posted: 12:08 PM - by BWW News Desk

The Board of Trustees of The Jewish Museum today announced that Claudia Gould has been named the institution's new Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director.

Ms. Gould is currently Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She will assume her post at The Jewish Museum in fall 2011, succeeding Joan Rosenbaum. As previously announced, Ms. Rosenbaum will retire from The Jewish Museum at the end of August 2011 upon concluding a 30-year tenure during which she transformed the institution into an international arts destination and positioned it for future growth and success.

For more than a century, The Jewish Museum has illuminated the Jewish experience and demonstrated the power of art and Jewish culture through critically acclaimed exhibitions, related education programs, and a renowned collection of 26,000 objects that is among the three largest of its kind in the world and distinguished by its breadth and quality. Inspiring people of all religious and cultural backgrounds, the Museum is poised to enter a new phase and reach an ever broader and more diverse audience.

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Congratulations to Ms. Gould and the Jewish Museum.

Past posts about the Jewish Museum in New York are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.