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14.06.2010
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM APPOINTS JEFFREY WEISS AS CURATOR, PANZA COLLECTION
(NEW YORK, NY – May 21, 2010) –– Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, announced the appointment of Jeffrey Weiss to the newly established position of Curator, Panza Collection. The creation of the position is part of the Panza Collection Conservation Initiative (PCCI), which was announced last month along with a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of $1.23 million to support the first phase of this project. This phase will undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual artworks, from the 1960s through the 1970s, in the Guggenheim’s Panza Collection.
The PCCI was conceived by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Deputy Director and Chief Curator Nancy Spector and Deputy Director and Chief Conservator Carol Stringari, who will remain integral to and head the project. As part of the Panza Collection Conservation Initiative, Mr. Armstrong announced the appointment of Ted Mann as Associate Curator, Panza Collection, and also announced the newly created position of Panza Conservator, which will be filled in the near future.
Before joining the Guggenheim Museum, Jeffrey Weiss was an independent curator and critic based in New York. Between 2000 and 2007, he was Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. From 2007 to 2008, he served as Director of the Dia Art Foundation, New York, but left to return to academic and curatorial work. Since that time he has been teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University’s graduate school of art history, where he will retain his position as Adjunct Professor of Fine Art.
From 2001 to 2008, Ted Mann held various positions at the Guggenheim Museum, most recently that of Assistant Curator for Collections.
Weiss will begin work in August and Mann in early June.
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