Hello Everyone

• Two wonderful exhibitions opened this week – Illusions: The Art of Magic and Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956-1971. It is part of your job to see these shows so please make a point to view them. They couldn’t be more different from one another but I’m sure they’ll be engaging to our audiences. Thank you to everyone involved in every aspect including figuring out how to make a woman hover in mid-air!

• The Arbus exhibition is a culmination of a multi-year project that was started by Matthew Teitelbaum (former Director & CEO) and Maia Sutnik (Photography Curator, Emeritus) – all the works are part of our holdings and we should be incredibly proud to be stewards of one of the most important collections in the world.

• 12,000 people visited during Family Day weekend. By all accounts, the program was well planned and well executed – an overall great job that was spot on mission.

• On Monday, we will announce the recent acquisition and installation of an extraordinary painting from around 1750 (see pic) – we don’t know the subject or artist but please visit the work in the Frank P. Wood Gallery and think about what you make of it.

Enjoy the weekend,

Stephan