Comings and Goings
Joshua W. Lane has been named the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum. Lane, curator of furniture at Historic Deerfield since 2000, assumes the post on April 14. He directed Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program between 2005 and 2012. Lane replaces Wendy Cooper, who retired last year.
Malcolm Rogers, director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts since 1994, will retire. The activist director oversaw an era of explosive growth at the MFA culminating with the opening of the new Art of the Americas Wing in 2010 but was at times criticized at times for his aggressive management style. Rogers, who is staying until a successor is found, also announced two new curatorial chairs. Frederick Ilchman will head Art of Europe while Benjamin Weiss leads Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Helen A. Cooper is retiring May as Yale University Art Gallery’s curator of American paintings and sculpture. Director Jock Reynolds credited Cooper with enlarging Yale’s holdings of early Modernist paintings and sculpture and nineteenth century landscape views during her 39 year tenure.
