MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER NAMES NEW ASSOCIATE CURATOR

Nora Burnett Adams, who has served as an adjunct curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver since August, has been named to the newly created position of associate curator, notes the Denver Post_.

Adams, thirty-two, will work under director Adam Lerner, who will continue to serve as the museum’s chief curator. She is currently at work on two upcoming solo exhibitions: Isca Greenfield-Sanders in the fall and Dario Robleto in winter 2011.

The New York native, who is completing the dissertation for her doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, was a curatorial and exhibition assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004–2006 and a one-year intern at the Museum of Modern Art before that.