MOMA names two curators - Artworld - Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro - Brief Article

New York's Museum of Modern Art has appointed Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro as curators in the department of painting and sculpture. Both will work directly with chief curator John Elderfield, who is beginning to staff the department as the museum prepares for its reopening in late 2004 or early 2005. One of Temkin's and Pissarro's first duties will be to work with Elderfield and curators Gary Carrels and Anne Umland to install the permanent collection in MOMA's new building.

Since 1990, Temkin has been curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she organized the recent Barnett Newman retrospective and Alice Neel survey (2000-01). She also co-curated the Brancusi (1995) and Raymond Pettibon (1998-99) exhibitions, and initiated the acquisition of 200 art works. Temkin got her start at MOMA in 1984, working at the museum as a curatorial assistant for three years.

Pissarro was most recently a professor of contemporary art and theory at Hunter College, City University of New York. From 1997 to 2000 he was curator of European and contemporary art at the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as a professor in Yale's art-history department. From 1994 to '97, he served as chief curator at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Tex., where he curated "Monet and the Mediterranean" (1997), co-organized "Georges de La Tour" (1996) and coordinated, with Yve-Alain Bois, "Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry" (1997). He is also director of the Robert Motherwell catalogue raisonne project, and is finishing work on the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the paintings of his great-grandfather, Camille Pissarro.

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