NEW PHOTOGRAPHY CURATOR FOR NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART; MACDOWELL MEDALIST CHOSEN

The New Mexico Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Katherine Ware as the museum’s new curator of photography. Ware will begin her position October 6. She is currently the curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Alfred Stieglitz Center for Photography. In Philadelphia, she co-organized the recent exhibition “Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery” and was coauthor of the accompanying book. She is a frequent juror and reviewer of contemporary photography and has organized numerous exhibitions from the Philadelphia Museum’s permanent collection. She previously served as assistant curator in the photography department at the J. Paul Getty Museum and worked for several years at the Oakland Museum of California. “We could not have wished for a more experienced candidate than Kate Ware,” said the director of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Marsha Boll.

In other news, according to Julie Bloom in the New York Times, the architect Thom Mayne will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal on Sunday from the MacDowell Colony artists’ residence in New Hampshire. Mayne will be the forty-ninth recipient of the honor. Previous recipients include Leonard Bernstein, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O’Keeffe, and I. M. Pei. Based in Santa Monica, Mayne is the principle of the architectural firm Morphosis, which he founded with Michael Rotondi. Mayne received the Pritzker Prize in 2005.