Dia Art Foundation Names New Director

After an eight-month search for a new director, the Dia Art Foundation, in New York, has appointed Jeffrey Weiss, 48, currently head of the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, reports The New York Times.

The decision comes a year after Dia’s former director, Michael Govan, resigned to run the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

“Now that we have a director, our first priority is to find a site in New York and to develop our program there,” said Nathalie de Gunzburg, Dia’s board chairwoman. Dia currently has no home in Manhattan. Its permanent collection is housed in Beacon, N.Y.

Created in 1974, Dia oversees site-specific art installations and the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, N.Y. The museum also works closely with Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Tex.; the Andy Warhol Museum, in Pittsburgh; and the Cy Twombly Gallery, in Houston.

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