NANCY SPECTOR NAMED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR OF GUGGENHEIM MUSEUMS
After recently becoming the deputy director and chief curator at the Brooklyn Museum, Nancy Spector is heading back to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this time in a new role: artistic director, the first such position at the museum, and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator. With this move, Spector will become responsible for conceptual and strategic leadership of collections, exhibitions, and curatorial programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as at all Guggenheim museums internationally.
Spector was deputy director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator by the time she left the Guggenheim, where she worked for over twenty-nine years, and joined the Brooklyn Museum in April 2016. Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, said, “Over the past year, we have given fresh thought to the way the Guggenheim creates and manages its artistic program in New York and abroad. This exploration has identified the need for an individual who provides leadership and strategic vision for collections, exhibitions, and programs across all aspects of the Foundation and all the museums in our international constellation. During her many years at the Guggenheim, Nancy Spector shaped our institution in singular and significant ways. She is the ideal person to take on this new role working with the Guggenheim. . .We are pleased to welcome her into her new role.”
Of her return to the Guggenheim, Spector said, “I’m grateful to Anne Pasternak, the trustees and the wonderful staff of the Brooklyn Museum for giving me the opportunity to work with them and learn from them in their great institution. It has been a privilege to participate in the museum’s vital engagement with its community and to address the possibilities of its encyclopedic collection. But when Richard Armstrong approached me with the new position of artistic director at the Guggenheim, I simply could not let this extraordinary opportunity—which is truly unique to the Guggenheim—pass me by. I look forward to working with my Guggenheim colleagues in New York and around the world in envisioning the many innovative programs and initiatives we will create together in the coming years.”
