The Museum of Fantastic Arts, Boston, usually thought-about the highest artwork museum in that metropolis, named its new director and CEO on Thursday, the museum announced in a press statement.
Pierre Terjanian, 56, the museum’s present chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will take up the function beginning in July. Terjanian was picked after a seven-month search and succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum, who has been the director since 2015.
“The predominant feeling is the thrill,” Terjanian advised the New York Instances. “This can be a nice establishment, and it has a giant half to play in Boston, in New England and past.”
Terjanian joined the museum in 2024 in a job overseeing the conservation of the museum’s huge assortment of over 500,000 objects. He additionally has directed the event of the MFA’s exhibition program, in line with the museum, each in Boston and globally.
Beforehand, he labored for ten years because the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator in Cost of Arms and Armor on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York. Through the Covid-19 pandemic, Terjanian co-chaired the Met’s reoening activity pressure, and, throughout his tenure on the museum, he secured $100 million in fundraising, together with a significant reward from ARTnews Top 200 Collector Ronald S. Lauder.
Earlier than that, he served as J. J. Medveckis Affiliate Curator of Arms and Armor and appearing head of the Division of European Sculpture and Ornamental Arts earlier than 1700 on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork
“Pierre’s good curatorial imaginative and prescient, deep understanding of the MFA and our famend collections, and inspirational management fashion have led the Board of Trustees to unanimously select him to steer the Museum confidently and boldly into the long run,” Marc S. Plonskier, chair of the MFA’s board of trustees, mentioned in an announcement.
One of many largest ongoing tasks on the MFA Boston, introduced in October, is a $25 million gift from the Wyss Basis to reinvent the presentation of its twentieth century artwork assortment.
The funds are slated to help a renovation challenge that can create 4 new gallery areas, with 5,665 sq. ft of extra exhibition house, in addition to updates to lighting, home windows, and local weather management. They’re set to open subsequent fall, with three of the areas devoted to fashionable artwork and the fourth gallery to fashionable sculpture.
