MOMA Curator Departing - Art World - Robert Storr - Brief Article

Robert Storr, senior curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, is leaving his post for academia. He has been appointed to the newly established Rosalie Solow Professorship of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Though Storr begins his teaching duties on Sept. 1, he will see his current MOMA projects through to completion. He is co-organizing a major Max Beckmann retrospective, with Didier Ottinger of the Pompidou Center and Sean Rainbird of the Tate Modern, which will open in September in Paris and travel to London before appearing at MOMA's Queens venue next summer. Storr will also serve as guest curator of an Elizabeth Murray show to take place after MOMA returns to its Midtown premises in 2005.

Storr joined the MOMA staff as curator in 1990, and was promoted to senior curator in 1999. Among the exhibitions he has organized are this spring's critically acclaimed Gerhard Richter retrospective, as well as those of Chuck Close and Tony Smith (both 1998) and Robert Ryman (1992). In 1997, he curated "On the Edge," which presented works from the collection of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. Storr was responsible for a number of important acquisitions at MOMA, including Richter's 18 October 1977 series, Chris Burden's Medusa Head, Louise Bourgeois's Articulated Lair and Fillette, and works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Franz West and Rachel Whiteread.

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