News
News Flash: Memory Shop and Anime Zakka to Open in Harvard Square
News
Harvard Researchers Develop AI-Driven Framework To Study Social Interactions, A Step Forward for Autism Research
News
Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 25 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists
News
Graduate Student Council To Vote on Meeting Attendance Policy
News
Pop Hits and Politics: At Yardfest, Students Dance to Bedingfield and a Student Band Condemns Trump
Ivan Gaskell, a Cambridge University fellow, began his new job as the Fogg Museum's first curator of paintings since the 1950s.
The endowment for the Winthrop Curator of Paintings was created about five years ago, according to James Cuno, director of the University Art Museums.
Cuno said Gaskell was "the first and unanimous choice" of a six-month international search, conducted by a committee whose members included Cuno, several Fine Arts Department professors, a Yale professor and a graduate arts student.
"We wanted someone who would bring scholarly credentials to the position, have an inclination towards students and teaching, and have a real consideration for the intimate concerns of art as material objects," Cuno said.
Gaskell said yesterday that because he has no predecessor, the full responsibilities of his job are not fully defined. "I've got to start a new department from scratch," he said.
Gaskell's responsibilities include deciding which works to exhibit, ensuring the maintenance of art-work, overseeing the acquisition of new works and supervising research and interpretation, Cuno said.
Originally from England, Gaskell has degrees from Cambridge, Oxford and London Universities.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.