Hasta La Ideas

Staying with museums a bit longer (but this time with ones that actually exist), P.S.1 will soon have a new chief curator, Peter Eleey, who will take on the new role as of July 1st of this year. The job will have him overseeing the curatorial staff and organizing exhibits and public programs, working closely under Klaus Biesenbach, the director of the museum. Although Eleey got his start in New York, for the past three years, he’d been at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a fact which has alarmed some residents in that city, given how often New York seems to be poaching Walker’s senior staff for their own museums: Doryun Chong and Kathy Halbreich at the MoMA, Phillipe Vergne and Yasmil Raymond now at the Dia Art Foundation, and Richard Flood moved to the New Museum. Here’s the official word from Bisenbach:

“Through his excellent work at the Walker Art Center, and previously in New York at Creative Time, Peter Eleey has emerged as one of the most talented curators of his generation. He is thoughtful and inventive, and has demonstrated a strong committment to artists in his work. I am thrilled to have him join us at this important moment, and know that he will be a great addition to P.S.1,” states Mr. Biesenbach.

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