Wave Hill Chooses Claudia Bonn as Director

NEW YORK—Wave Hill has chosen Claudia Bonn for its executive director. Bonn, who joins the public garden and cultural center April 7, succeeds Kate French, who has led the 28-acre center in the Riverdale section of the Bronx for the past 17 years. Bonn is currently the Film Society of Lincoln Center's executive director, a position she has held since 2003. She has been at the Film Society for more than 15 years, previously serving as its director of administration and director of development. She also has worked with the American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet in New York. French announced her departure from Wave Hill last June.

TUCSON—The University of Arizona Libraries and Center for Creative Photography have appointed Britt Salvesen as chief curator for the Center for Creative Photography. Salvesen, who takes over the post on March 1, is currently serving as interim director for the photography center. Salvesen has a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago and has earned several distinctions in the field of photography, including a Scholarly Residence with the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center and a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship. Salvesen joined the center as curator in October of 2004, after a stint as associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Art Institute of Chicago. She was appointed interim director in June, 2007, after the departure of Doug Nickel. 

PRINCETON, N.J.—Princeton University Art Museum director Susan M. Taylor has announced she will step down at the end of this school year. Princeton has been at the museum since 2000, and before that she served for 12 years as director of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. At Princeton, Taylor was in charge of establishing new curatorial departments for education and academic programming, modern and contemporary art, and American art and for the endowment of four curator positions and several program funds. Taylor, along with Senior University Counsel Lorraine Sciarra, negotiated an agreement with the Italian government that resolved a dispute over 15 ancient artworks at the museum, in which Princeton agreed to return eight artifacts and Italy agreed to lend significant works of art to the museum and to give Princeton students access to Italian archaeological sites. Taylor is on leave through June 30.

GLENS FALLS, NY—The Hyde Collection has appointed David Setford as its new director. Setford, who took over the position Monday, left the Naples Museum of Art in Florida, where he served as director of curatorial affairs. Other positions he has held include director of Palm Beach! America's International Fine Art & Antique Fair, director and founder of ArtReach, and curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla.

PARIS—The Musee d’Orsay has appointed Guy Cogeval as its new director, Le Monde reports. Cogeval is the former director of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, where he served for nine years. One of Cogeval's goals for the Orsay is to increase its representation of theater, opera, and cinema, the newspaper reports. He replaces Serge Lemoine, who will retire. Under Lemoine's leadership, which began in 2001, the museum increased its annual visitors from 1.7 million to 3.2 million and increased the number of temporary exhibitions from just a few to about 16 per year.

AUSTIN, Texas—The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art has named Ann Wilson as its interim director, the Austin Business Journal reports. Blanton, who takes up the post March 1, will temporarily replace Jessie Otto Hite, who is retiring. Wilson has served as associate director at the Blanton for the past four years, and her 15-plus years of museum experience includes the Waters Museum in Baltimore and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. 

Farewells
LONDON—The photographer Jorge Lewinski died January 31 at the age of 88, the Times (London) reports. The Polish-born artist chronicled the modern art world by photographing more than 300 British artists, including Francis Bacon and David Hockney, in black and white. He stopped producing photographs in 1995, shunning the art world because he did not like the art being produced or the publicity craze surrounding modern artists. The Tate tried to buy his archive in 2002, but Lewinski refused, selling it instead to the Earl of Burlington (now the 12th Duke of Devonshire) for Chatsworth House, because the earl had agreed to show the all the 1960s and 1970s portraits of artists together, rather than just a selection of key names, as the Tate had proposed. Lewinski also taught photography, started his own school, as well as photographing American and French artists, famous female personalities such as 1960s fashion icon Mary Quant, and landscapes. After he turned away from photography, he became a passionate collector of stamps.