February 17, 2021
Patty Alper, Barbara Brown, Jane Chu, Paul Killian, and Sala Elise Patterson join the museum’s Board of Trustees
WASHINGTON, DC The Phillips Collection has elected five new members to join its Board of Trustees. The new members bring a wealth of new perspectives to the Phillips and their range of expertise will provide the museum with additional tools to celebrate its centennial year in 2021 and continue its impact.
“We are thrilled to welcome Patty Alper, Barbara Brown, Jane Chu, Paul Killian, and Sala Elise Patterson to our Board of Trustees,” said
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Director & CEO Dorothy Kosinski. “These accomplished individuals bring insights, expertise, and diverse perspectives that will enhance all of our work at the Phillips from education to communications and visitors experience important capacities as we embark on our next 100 years.”
Art Institute of Chicago announces Irene Sunwoo as Chair of Architecture and Design
Sunwoo joins the Art Institute from the Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Photo: Benjamin Mistak.
CHICAGO, IL
.-The Art Institute announced today that the museum has appointed architectural historian and curator Irene Sunwoo to be the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator, Architecture and Design. Sunwoo joins the Art Institute from the Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation , where she has been Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery and Director of Exhibitions since 2016.
At Columbia, Sunwoo established a distinctive vision, overseeing an experimental and interdisciplinary exhibition program that fused a scholarly approach to content with innovative exhibition design. In her ongoing collaborations with architects and artists, Sunwoo has supported and advanced new architectural practices, research, an
Irene Sunwoo To Join Art Institute of Chicago As John H. Bryan Chair of Architecture and Design
CHICAGO, Illinois
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The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that the museum has appointed architectural historian and curator Irene Sunwoo to be the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator, Architecture and Design. Sunwoo joins the Art Institute from the Columbia Universityâs Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation , where she has been Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery and Director of Exhibitions since 2016.Â
At Columbia, Sunwoo established a distinctive vision, overseeing an experimental and interdisciplinary exhibition program that fused a scholarly approach to content with innovative exhibition design. In her ongoing collaborations with architects and artists, Sunwoo has supported and advanced new architectural practices, research, and ideas. She has consistently demonstrated a rigorous commitment to ho
Buried beneath a weather report and an investigation into a regional planning commissioner, a brief news item appeared in The Times about the death on Jan. 23, 1980, of architect Paul Revere Williams at the age of 85.
Three days later, the paper ran an obituary. That report was a bit more complete. It featured a photograph of Williams and ran through a handful of his achievements: He was the first Black architect to be admitted into the ranks of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a wildly prolific designer who’d had a hand in designing well-known commercial and civic buildings (such as the Los Angeles County Courthouse), as well as graceful homes for celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Barbara Stanwyck and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Yet his death was not treated as big news. The modest obituary ran on page 22.