Flash Art March/April 1998

 

PEOPLE, PLACES

 

The Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston announced that following a six month international search, Jill Medvedow has been named the new Director of the institution.  Medvedow, who is founder and director of Vita Brevis and consultant to the Boston Foundations new Arts and Audience Initiative, will assume her new post on 2 March, 1998. 

Christian Speaks, adjunct curator at the Museum of New Art, Detroit, has been named its new director.  She succeeds Richard Mann, who will officially resign in January to concentrate on his recent appointment to the directorship of the Guggenheim Johannesburg, scheduled to begin construction late next year.  Under Mann’s leadership, the MONA more than tripled its membership and tripled the size of its endowment.  At 24, Speaks is the youngest director to take the position in museum history.