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Orlando Museum of Art Promotes from Within for Chief Curator Position
The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) has concluded its search for its new chief curator, promoting Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon after six years of service in the collections and curatorial departments. Claeysen-Gleyzon replaced the longtime chief curator of the Orlando Museum of Art, Hansen Mulford, who quietly retired after 42 years this March. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Mulford retired without advanced notice to staff.
Born in France and raised in Niger, Africa, Claeysen-Gleyzon has been with the OMA since January 2018, and has variously held the positions of associate curator, curator, and, more recently, interim head of the collections and exhibitions department.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to make the announcement on Thursday, including a 5% budget increase for all national museums and art galleries.
She is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support.
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.
The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.
Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.
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brand-new private museum to its ranks – PoMo, short for Post Office Modern. Its mission is to make art more accessible, challenge gender inequality in collections, and boost the region’s cultural scene.
Set in an Art Nouveau building that used to serve as the city’s post office, PoMo spans five floors and 4,000 square metres. The space is a product of the vision and personal art collection of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan, who’ve spent over two decades collecting works from artists like Simone Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, and Franz West. Ole Robert, who’s also a co-owner of the Norwegian retail and finance giant Reitan AS, believes art should be for everyone
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