MoMA Names Leah Dickerman as First Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture — artnews.com

The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Leah Dickerman as the first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture. The position was recently established with an endowment from Hess, a museum trustee since 2002. The appointment acknowledges Dickerman’s many accomplishments as an art historian and curator in the MoMA’s department of painting and sculpture since 2008. From 1997 to 2000, she served as assistant professor of art history at Stanford, and has also taught at Princeton and the University of Delaware. Prior to joining MoMA, Dickerman served as acting head of the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.

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