Hasta La Ideas

While New Orleans, along with the rest of the Gulf States region, are experiencing and/or preparing for the worst with oil still spilling into the ocean, it might be of some small comfort to know that at least their art museum will be taken care of. The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced that they’ve hired Susan Taylor as their new director (pdf), who will come on board on September 1st, following the retirement of their long-time current director, E. John Bullard. Taylor comes from Princeton University, where she led the Princeton Art Museum up until 2008 when she left and was replaced by James Steward; prior to that, she spent more than a decade as the director of Wellesley College’s Davis Museum. Here’s a bit:

“Susan Taylor was selected from a field of strong candidates thanks to Laurie Nash of Russell Reynolds Associates,” said Donna Rosen, trustee and member of NOMA’s Search Committee. “I spoke to many museum directors around the country about Susan. Words that came up most often while describing her were ‘imaginative, encyclopedic knowledge of the history of art, high standards, seizes opportunities, visionary, intelligent and of our time.’ In fact, through the search process, all of these accolades were revealed.”

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