Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced several new curatorial appointments. Anne E. Havinga has been promoted to Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Chair, Department of Photography, while Christine Kondoleon has been promoted to George D. and Margo Behrakis Chair, Art of Ancient Greece and Rome. Additionally, Akili Tommasino has been appointed as the Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, and will begin his new position at the MFA in October. Havinga began her career at the MFA nearly three decades ago, becoming the Museum’s first curator of photographs in 2001. She has organized more than 35 exhibitions over the years—including, most recently, Alfred Stieglitz and Modern America; In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 (co-curated with Anne Nishimura Morse, William and Helen Pounds Curator of Japanese Art) and Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photograph
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