NEW CURATOR OF POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE MET

Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas P. Campbell, has revealed that Kelly Baum will be curator of postwar and contemporary art in the museum’s department of modern and contemporary art.

As the Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum—a role Baum’s held for the past decade—she was founding curator of the museum’s department of modern and contemporary art. There, she organized exhibitions like “Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000–2010,” 2010 and “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: ‘Untitled’,” 2013. She also added over 100 works of art to Princeton’s collection. She’d also previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

Said Sheena Wagstaff, head of the Met’s modern and contemporary program, “Kelly will bring with her critical thinking and curatorial integrity, as well as close relationships with artists, art historians, and donors.”