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Dia Art Foundation Announces New Director
The Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as Dia's new director. Mr. Weiss, who assumes his post in late-spring 2007, succeeds Michael Govan, who became director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Mr. Weiss joins Dia, which was founded in 1974, at a pivotal period in its history. In May 2003 the institution launched Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, a museum in Beacon, New York, where Dia displays its world-renowned collection of art from the 1960s to today, and presents special exhibitions and public programming. To date, Dia:Beacon has drawn some 330,000 visitors. Mr. Weiss will lead the organization as it enters a new stage, redeveloping its New York City program while continuing both to present its schedule at Dia:Beacon and maintain long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States and New York City, as well as on Long Island.
Mr. Weiss brings to Dia significant experience as a museum professional and scholar. At the National Gallery, where he has worked since 1994, he has organized numerous exhibitions, edited and contributed to their catalogues, and overseen a vigorous acquisitions program. Most recently, he organized Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting 1955- 65, which opened at the National Gallery on January 28, 2007. In addition, in 2004 he worked with Dia to bring to the Gallery the first presentation of the internationally touring Dan Flavin retrospective, which was organized by Dia in association with the Gallery.
Prior to being named curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Gallery, Mr. Weiss served as associate curator and assistant curator in the department; from 1991 to 1993, he was a research associate and associate research curator at the Gallery. He is currently the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he is leading a graduate seminar and, where, this spring, he will deliver public lectures on the art of the 1960s and 1970s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jeffrey Weiss received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 1991, and a B.A. from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in June 1980.
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