Dia Art Foundation Names New Director
- September 10, 2014 18:00
The Dia Art Foundation has chosen a new director as the 40-year-old non-profit institution struggles with issues of financing and a needed expansion of space in Manhattan. Jessica Morgan, a curator at Tate Modern, will leave London for New York in January to lead the Dia's next phase.
Morgan fills the role left by Philippe Vergne who decamped for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles earlier this year. Morgan says she likes fundraising and the board has left decisions about a new building at West 22nd St. up to her. Some 60% of funds have been raised for the space.
A curator at the Tate since 2002, Morgan was formerly chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Known for its collection of Minimalist and Conceptualist works of the 1960s and 70s, the Dia also maintains the acclaimed Dia:Beacon along the Hudson River.
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
