Randall Suffolk, who has been director and president of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been appointed as the next Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director at the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, GA. Suffolk succeeds Michael E. Shapiro, who will be stepping down on 31 July after 15 years in the role.
Built in the early 1980s by Richard Meier, the High Museum of Art has more than 15,000 works in its permanent collection including nineteenth-and twentieth-century American and decorative art; European paintings; African American art; modern and contemporary art, photography, folk art and African art and was extended in 2002 by the addition of three new buildings designed by Renzo Piano.
Suffolk, who has 20 years museum experience, will take up the position in November 2015.
29 July 2015.
