Overview
- The New Museum announced on Tuesday, July 7 that Massimiliano Gioni will become director and will take the post on August 1.
- Gioni has been at the museum since 2006, serving as curator, associate director and artistic director, and he founded the New Museum Triennial in 2009.
- The board said it ran an extensive global search but concluded the best candidate was internal, with president James‑Keith Brown calling Gioni an ideal steward for the institution.
- Gioni curated the museum’s current exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, which opened in March to inaugurate the OMA expansion that roughly doubled the museum’s size.
- Coverage notes that staff union complaints about working conditions and stalled contract talks under Lisa Phillips remain part of the museum’s recent context and could shape expectations for Gioni’s early priorities.