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With the plans for Harvard’s new contemporary art museum in Allston currently up in the air, Harvard Art Museum’s curator of contemporary art Helen Molesworth will leave Harvard to become the chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, ICA officials announced earlier this month...
Molesworth, who came to Harvard in 2007, said she was drawn to the Harvard curator position because of the proposed new museum, but decided to apply for the ICA position after she realized that Harvard’s plans would not move forward for several years...
Molesworth said the new museum would have had ample space to feature the large-scale displays in which she specializes, but these exhibitions are more difficult to put on in Harvard’s current space...
Lentz added that the Art Museum will begin a search for Molesworth’s replacement soon but did not specify a time frame...
...Harvard’s first curator of contemporary art since the museum established a department dedicated to contemporary art in 1997, Molesworth organized a number of noteworthy exhibitions, including this fall’s “ACT UP, New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis...