Whitney names new director - Artworld - Brief Article

Adam D. Weinberg, director since 1999 of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., is the new head of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He succeeds Maxwell Anderson, who stepped down in May [see "Front Page," July '03]. Weinberg was on staff at the Whitney, first as director of the Equitable Center branch from 1989 to 1990, and then as curator of the permanent collection beginning in 1992, before becoming senior curator in 1998. From 1990 to '92, he was artistic and program director of the American Center in Paris.

Among the shows he has helped organize are the traveling "Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz," recently on view at the AXA Gallery in New York, "Alex Katz: Small Paintings" (2001), which traveled from the Addison to the Whitney, and "Views from Abroad" (1995-97), a three-part exhibition co-organized with several European museums.

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