Friday, May 25, 2007
Director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum moves on
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FORT WORTH The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced that director Dr. Timothy Potts will leave on Sept. 1; he was director at the Kimbell for almost nine years.
Dr. Potts announced his decision at the Kimbell Art Foundation Board meeting on May 22nd, offering to stay until September 1 to allow time for his successor to be identified and to ensure a smooth transition. He'll continue to support the museum as a consultant on selected projects, including the Kimbell-organized exhibition Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art, which opens in November.
Dr. Potts said that, "after nearly nine years I feel the time is right to move on and for someone else to take over. The museum has entered a new phase with the recent appointment of Renzo Piano to design a companion building on the site adjacent to Louis Kahn’s great masterpiece. This is likely to be a five-year project and, with the drafting of the museum’s Architectural Program on target to be completed by the end of the summer, September 1st seems a sensible point at which to step aside for a director who will see it through to completion."
Exhibitions he oversaw include: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (oh, who could forget Hatshepsut?); Gauguin and Impressionism; and Stubbs and the Horse. Upcoming exhibitions include The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso (opening in June), and the first-ever major exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art (coming in summer 2008).
Posted by T.G.
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atlasslipped Anonymous
This is a big loss for the museum. He made it the international treasure it is today.
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