The Museum of Fantastic Arts, Boston (MFA) has picked its new director, Pierre Terjanian. He’ll step as much as the position on 1 July, having served as chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024. Terjanian succeeds outgoing director Matthew Teitelbaum, who’s retiring this summer time after ten years main the MFA—the 83rd-most-visited artwork museum on the earth and ninth-most-visited within the US, in line with The Artwork Newspaper’s most up-to-date attendance-figure survey.
“It’s really an honour to move the management of this nice establishment to Pierre—an inspiring colleague who believes strongly within the position of artwork and museums, and the significance of tradition and neighborhood,” Teitelbaum stated in a press release. “His dedication to the curatorial subject, and throughout museum features, is deeply knowledgeable by his unwavering dedication to inquiry, technique and dealing with others to handle the important points going through public establishments right this moment.”
Terjanian—a local of Strasbourg, France—has labored for nearly three a long time at US museums, together with as a curator of arms and armour first on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork after which at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.
Throughout his ten years on the Met, Terjanian organised exhibitions just like the formidable 2019 who The Final Knight: The Artwork, Armour and Ambition of Maximilian I, with 180 objects borrowed from establishments worldwide. He additionally co-chaired the Met’s reopening taskforce in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, raised $100m in funds and artistic endeavors for the museum and secured a serious present of 91 objects of European arms and armour from the collector Ronald S. Lauder. (Lauder, an inheritor to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune and the founding father of New York’s Neue Galerie, is allegedly the one who satisfied US President Donald Trump to attempt to purchase Greenland.)
Terjanian gained the 2024 Marica Vilcek Prize in Artwork Historical past and, earlier this yr, was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres by the French authorities.
“We stay in a time when cultural establishments have a main alternative to reveal the optimistic distinction they will make within the lives of people—and in society,” Terjanian stated in a press release. “I’m excited to tackle this work, and I consider even better impression will come within the type of partnerships in and past Boston.”
