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Dr. Mariët Westermann, Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, to deliver CAA113 Convocation Keynote Address
posted by CAA — Nov 13, 2024
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Mariët Westermann, Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, will deliver the Convocation keynote address at the CAA 113th Annual Conference!
As Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, Dr. Westermann directs the Guggenheim’s flagship in New York and oversees the Guggenheim sites in Venice, Bilbao, and Abu Dhabi. Previously, Dr. Westermann was founding Provost at NYU Abu Dhabi, and later Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive. She has also served as Executive Vice President of the Mellon Foundation and Director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
A historian of art of the Netherlands, Dr. Westermann has authored numerous books, articles, and exhibition essays on Dutch art and artists, museums, and the state and future of higher education. On behalf of the Mellon Foundation, Dr. Westermann commissioned and published (with Roger Schonfeld and Liam Sweeney) two critical research studies on staff diversity in the museum sector.
Dr. Westermann was the lead curator and catalogue author of the exhibition Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, shown at the Denver Art Museum and The Newark Museum (1997–2001). She served as curatorial consultant, researcher, and essayist for the National Gallery’s presentation of Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller (1994–96), in partnership with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
In 2020, Dr. Westermann co-convened Reframing Museums, a major international conference on the future of museums, organized with NYU Abu Dhabi and Louvre Abu Dhabi. In 2010, on behalf of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, she co-hosted Art Museums Here and Now, a conference with Philippe de Montebello on what it means to build art museums in countries that have not had them or reinvent traditional art museums to stay connected to their changing societies.
Dr. Westermann is a trustee of ALIPH and the Rijksmuseum and chairs the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund.
Join us for the CAA 113th Annual Conference, February 12–15, at the New York Hilton Midtown! Convocation will be held on February 12, 6:00–8:30 p.m. ET and will also be livestreamed via YouTube. Register now!