Brooklyn taketh, but sometimes Brooklyn giveth back.

Nancy Spector, the longtime chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum who made an unusual career move last spring to lead the curatorial team at the Brooklyn Museum, has decided to reverse course and go back to the Guggenheim as both chief curator and artistic director, a new and more powerful position created for her.

Richard Armstrong, the Guggenheim’s director, said that after the departure of Ms. Spector, a highly respected voice in contemporary art, the museum had put together a strong group of international candidates to replace her, “but for various reasons none of that really bore fruit, and as I came to a point of aggravation, I guess, Nancy and I saw each other and started a conversation.''........Continue Reading

Top image: Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Curator, Brooklyn Museum. Courtesy of Nancy Spector.

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