MoMA PS1 has named Connie Butler, Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in L.A., its new director:
For nearly a year, MoMA PS1 has been looking for a candidate to fill its top job. Now, the Queens museum has announced that it has found its new director in Connie Butler, chief curator at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum“I’m very excited to meet and get to know the staff and to thoroughly dive into the work that they have been doing, and really to also draw on the many ingredients that I think are there in MoMA PS1’s great history,” Butler told Artnet News by phone.
Asked to name the greatest challenge facing the institution, she said, “There are two significant challenges that are also opportunities: first, a gorgeous historic building that needs attending to to make it more accessible for its local community and the New York audience.
Feminism has been a major focus for the curator, and she has done much work to recognize women artists. “I have always honestly felt the deep rage that comes from being a woman growing up and becoming an adult under patriarchy in the United States,” she said in a 2021She co-organized the show “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where she was curator from 1996 to 2006 .
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