Changing of the guard at MOMA - Artworld - Brief Article

After serving for over 10 years as president of the board of trustees at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Agnes Gund stepped down from the post in June. She has been named president emerita and will now head up the museum's international council. Gund's involvement with MOMA began in 1967, when she first joined the international council; since then she has served as officer and trustee, and on numerous committees, and has donated many important works of ad to the museum. Perhaps most notably, she presided over the museum as it began its current renovation and expansion, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. To honor Gund's service to MOMA and her work to strengthen the museum's ties to living artists, her four brothers gave $1 million to endow the Agnes Gund Artist's Choice Exhibition Fund, an exhibition series in which artists will be invited to curate shows from the museum's collection.

Replacing Gund is Robert B. Menschel, a senior director at Goldman Sachs who has been a trustee since 1989. A photography collector for some 40 years, Menschel is now responsible for completing MOMA's $800-million capital campaign for its new building; $540 million has been raised under Gund. He was on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities from 1994 to 2001, and serves on the boards of various philanthropic groups.

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