Brett Littman Steps Down as Director of Noguchi Museum

Brett Littman, who since 2018 has served because the director of the Noguchi Museum in Lengthy Island Metropolis, New York, has left his function on the establishment. Deputy director Jennifer Lorch will step in as interim director till the board of trustees names a successor. No purpose was given for Littman’s departure. The Noguchi Museum is the primary US establishment that was established, designed, and put in by a dwelling artist to showcase their very own oeuvre. 

“On behalf of the board of Trustees, we want to prolong our gratitude to Brett for his contributions to the museum,” stated board cochairs Spencer Bailey and Susan Kessler. “Brett leaves the Museum in a powerful place. We want him nice success in his future endeavors.”

Littman’s departure comes because the Noguchi Museum undertakes a significant enlargement of its Queens campus that may see a brand new 6,000-square-foot constructing designed by Büro Koray Duman in addition to the renovation and restoration of the sculptor’s studio and condominium. Initially slated to open to the general public in 2022, the enlargement stays in progress with no official opening date as of but.

Littman, who succeeded Jenny Dixon as director of the Noguchi Museum, had beforehand served as government director of the Drawing Middle in Manhattan, and earlier than that was deputy director of MoMA PS1 in Lengthy Island Metropolis, co–government director of Brooklyn nonprofit Dieu Donné, and affiliate director of UrbanGlass, additionally in brooklyn. He was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French authorities in 2017.

On the time of his 2018 hiring by the Noguchi Museum, Malcolm C. Nolen, then the establishment’s board chair, had lauded him as “a distinguished and valued member of New York’s cultural group [who] will play a critically necessary function as we articulate and implement the following part of the museum’s improvement.” Nolen additional famous, “I do know that I communicate for my fellow trustees after I say how thrilled we’re that Brett will deliver his wealthy expertise in each the on a regular basis workings of a museum and the bigger function that museums play in our society to his work on the Noguchi Museum.”

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