Contemporary Art Curator Hired, Harvard

Joel Brown has the scoop over at HubArts.com:

There's a new contemporary art curator at the HUAM, Helen Molesworth, seen below. She arrives from the Wexner Center for the Arts.

What's interesting, when you read the press release, is that Molesworth is proudly presented as "the first full curator of contemporary art since the Art Museums established the department of modern and contemporary art in 1997." Sure, that's technically true. But Harvard, back in 1998, seemed pretty darn proud to have hired Linda Norden as its first curator of contemporary art. Oh, but she was just associate curator. Norden and HUAM parted ways earlier this year.