Recently annouced, effective February 5th of next year, Harvard University Art Museum's first full curator for contemporary art, a position in the once vacant department of contemporary and modern art, created in 1997.
Helen Molesworth, transplanting herslf to New England from Columbus, OH where she was serving as chief curator for the Wexner Center for the Arts. Molesworth brings a backlog of experience as an author, a distinguished scholar, also serving as curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1999 to 2003, where she organized the exnibit "Work Ethic", looking at the phenomenon of artists and labor in the advent of post modernism.
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Harvard University Art Museums
Thanks to HubArts and The Exhibitionist for the story.
