Overview
- The New Museum announced Tuesday, July 7 that Massimiliano Gioni will become director effective August 1 after an extensive international search that concluded the best candidate was internal.
- Gioni has worked at the New Museum since 2006 and has been its artistic director since 2014, rising from curator to associate director before taking his current post.
- He founded the New Museum Triennial in 2009 and has curated major shows at the institution and abroad, including editions of the Venice, Gwangju and Berlin biennials.
- This appointment comes as the museum opens the OMA-designed expansion and a large inaugural group show that Gioni curated, and coverage notes past staff union complaints and an earlier curatorial dispute as background without reporting new developments.
- Gioni will be only the museum’s third director since its 1977 founding, and his promotion signals institutional continuity while placing him under public scrutiny to manage the expanded campus, the museum’s program, and outstanding governance and labor questions.