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...December 2002, James Cuno left his long-time position as director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), replaced the following October by Asian art expert Thomas W. Lentz. At the time that the transfer of power occurred, the HUAM faced a $1.5 million budget deficit and layoffs of many employees...
...James Cuno, who served as the director of the Harvard University Art Museums until December 2002 and who will assume responsibilities as director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago starting in September, said the art school has a fundamentally different mission than Harvard...
...SAIC is] deeply committed to the practice and education of artists,” Cuno said when reached at his London home. “It’s not questioned...whereas in a big university, the visual arts always have to compete with other modes of inquiry...
...SAIC and the Art Institute of Chicago are “in a corporate relationship” but have separate administrations, according to Becker. As such, Cuno was not directly involved in Jenkins’ hiring, but said he was consulted and recommended his former and future colleague...
...very different job of course, so I couldn’t comment on how he might be as a dean, but I had very high regard for him as a curator of film,” Cuno said...