MoMA's Chief Curator to Retire

New York's Museum of Modern Art will retire John Elderfield, its Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, in 2008 at age 65 and make him its new Chief Curator Emeritus.

Time magazine reported on December 12, 2007 that John Elderfield, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, will be leaving his current position in July 2008 when he reaches the institution's mandatory retirement age of 65. As some other museums do, MoMA has created a new role for Dr. Elderfield as its Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture. In this capacity, he will continue to contribute to the development and organization of two upcoming shows on Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997).

Dr. Elderfield has been responsible for some of MoMA's most successful special exhibitions, among them Henri Matisse: A Retrospective (1992-93), Bonnard (1998), Matisse Picasso (2003) and Martin Puryear (2007-08).