Hasta La Ideas

Staying with museums a bit longer, we return to our shores and head to Ohio, where there’s been some major shifts at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The museum has named Deborah Gribbon as their interim director, who will take over for current director Timothy Rub this September as he leaves to take over the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gribbon, you might remember, used to be the head honcho at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and left there less than pleasantly after not getting along very well with the Getty’s board. And while she’ll likely be entering the Cleveland museum with less hostility in place, she certainly isn’t stepping into an easy job, as the announcement of her taking this position was simultaneous with the news that the museum had been forced to lay off 14 employees and leave another eight unfilled for the time being, all due to the plague of nearly all museums these days: a much smaller endowment. What’s more, these layoffs aren’t apt to play well against backdrop of the musuem’s ongoing $350 million expansion. So Gribbon definitely has some work ahead of her.

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