KENNETH WAYNE NAMED DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NOGUCHI MUSEUM

Kenneth Wayne has been appointed the deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Noguchi Museum reports Artdaily.org. Wayne has previously been a consultant for Christie’s Paris, the Man Ray Trust, and Il Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy. He has also worked as the chief curator at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York; as curator of modern art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and as the Joan Whitney Payson Curator at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Wayne states, “I am thrilled to be joining the Noguchi Museum, one of New York City’s great cultural treasures. I look forward to working with my new colleagues, and to deepening our understanding of Noguchi, his work, and its place in the history of modern art and society.”