Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on January 15, 2021
The Guggenheim Museum has named Naomi Beckwith deputy director and chief curator, after Nancy Spector stepped down as artistic director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum amid charges of racism, the newspaper reported. Beckwith starts her new position in June, becoming the museum’s first Black deputy director and chief curator.
In 2019, as Artnews reported, the Guggenheim hired Ashley James as associate curator of contemporary art, “making her the first full-time Black curator in the museum’s history.”