Baltimore Museum of artwork Names New Director: Christopher Bedford - long island times

photograph Christopher Bedford credit score Maximilian Franz

The Baltimore Museum of artwork has chosen a new director.

Christopher Bedford, the director of the Rose art Museum at Brandeis university, will in August succeed Doreen Bolger, who served because the Baltimore Museum's director from 1998 unless her retirement in 2015.

Mr. Bedford hopes "to make bigger its greatness in all areas," he pointed out in a cellphone interview, "but also rethink and redefine — and perhaps become a mannequin for — civic engagement." He become these days named the commissioner for the USA Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale, in an effort to present a new installation through Mark Bradford.

before becoming director of the Rose in 2012 Mr. Bedford held curatorial positions on the Wexner middle for the humanities in Ohio, the la County Museum of paintings and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The Baltimore Museum, which turned a hundred in 2014, recently raised $80.7 million, introduced nearly four,000 paintings donations to the assortment and accomplished a $28-million renovation.

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