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Erin Coe (photo: museum) was Alfred Weidinger, formerly a cura-
appointed director, Palmer Muse- tor for the collection of the 19th
um of Art at Penn State, Univer- and 20th century at the Belvedere
sity Park. Coe has been director in Vienna, took over the manage-
of The Hyde Collection in Glens ment of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Falls NY since 2015, previously Leipzig at the beginning of August
serving as chief curator from 1999 (Photo: City of Leipzig).
to 2014; Andrea Bakewell Low-
ery is the new Executive Director, On 1 February 2018, the art histori-
Pennsylvania Historical and Muse- an Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal Direc-
um Commission, Harrisburg PA. A preservationist with tor of the Martin Gropius Building
more than twenty years of experience, she has served in Berlin as successor to Gereon Sievernich.
at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum commission
for the last six years, most recently as chief of the agen- Successor of Dr. Sabine Haag at Vienna Kunsthistorisches
cy’s Division of Architecture and Preservation. She has Museum will be in 2019 the German Dr. Eike Schmidt,
managed the budget for PHMC’s capital improvements officially director of the Uffici, Italy.
across the state and spearheaded the agency’s master
planning initiatives. Dr. Martin Roth (photo: ifa/Gron-
sky), former director of the V & A
Aaron Pratt (photo: HRC) is ap- and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
pointed Curator of early books Dresden, died at the beginning of
and manuscripts, Harry Ransom August with only 62 years due to a
Center, Austin TX; Libby Tilley longterm severe illness.
became head of museum advance-
ment, Amon Carter Museum of Else
American Art, Fort Worth TX.
Herbert Münder, general man-
Valerie Cassel Oliver (photo: mu- ager at Germany’s Universum Bre-
seum) was selected as curator of men science centre and also past
modern and contemporary art president of the European Science
(with a focus on acquiring works by Events Association and current
African American and African-di- president of MINTaktiv, Germany’s
asporic artists) and Jan Hatch- science museum network, became
ette became deputy director for Ecsite’s new president. Münder
communications, Virginia Museum said a pressing challenge for the
of Fine Arts, Richmond VA; Roy science engagement community
Young was appointed vice presi- is the rise of the ‘post-truth’ era.
dent of guest experience, George MORE: http://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/
Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-32#section=-
and Gardens, Mount Vernon. section-column&href=/feature/column/ever-greater-so-
cietal-responsibility
Europe
Dr. Dor Guez has been named head of the MFA program
From September onwards, Cathe- of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Mount Scopus,
rine Schott (photo: ICOM-CH) will Jerusalem. The MFA program was established in 2001 as
be the Secretary General of the a studio-based program, and it is one of the five mas-
VMS and ICOM associations and will ter's programs at Bezalel. The program trains high-level
be responsible for their joint office artists and prepares them to integrate and contribute to
in Zurich. Schott has more than 15 the local and international art world. Guez is current-
years of experience in the museum ly the head of the Photography Department at Bezalel.
and has worked in the Fondation Dor Guez was born to a Palestinian and Tunisian-Jewish
Beyeler in Riehen, the Schaulager family in Jerusalem, and now lives and works in Jaffa.
in Münchenstein and the Kunstmuseum Basel, where he Guez is considered a critical voice from the Middle East
was mainly responsible for communications, marketing who's work explores the relationship between art, nar-
and PR. Catherine Schott has a broad network due to rative, and memory. Through a variety of disciplines and
her long-standing museum activities. info@museums.ch media, Guez work is grounded in the region’s histories
from a geopolitical perspective. In 2008 Guez founded
the Christian Palestinian Archive (CPA), a growing collec-
tion of archival materials from the first half of the 20th
century. The CPA is based on a wide range of profes-

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