Eleanor Nairne, from the Barbican Art Gallery in London, will head the Art Museum's modern and contemporary dept.
Eleanor Nairne, from the Barbican Art Gallery in London, will head the Art Museum's modern and contemporary dept.Eleanor Nairne, formerly senior curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, has been named curator and head of the Art Museum’s newly reconfigured department of modern and contemporary art. The London-born curator, the daughter of two art historians, hopes to take up her Philadelphia post sometime in February.
The museum’s search for a new head of modern and contemporary art aimed to find “a leader that will be inspiring, and truly, I think she’s that person,” said Carlos Basualdo, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator, who called Nairne “adventurous but thoughtful, very precise, very respected in the field.”
Eleanor Nairne arrives in Philadelphia amid a newly reconfigured curatorial structure established in September. In all, eight departments became six, and no jobs were eliminated in the reorganization, a museum spokesperson said.
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