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Brian Kennedy
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Brian P. Kennedy was CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum until December 31, 2020. He previously served as the managing director of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra)
Former Managing director of the Peabody Essex Museum

Incumbent

Causeless office
2019
Manager of the Toledo Museum of Fine art
In function
2010–2019
Director of the Hood Museum of Art
In office
2004–2010
Personal details
Born

Brian Patrick Kennedy


(1961-eleven-05) v November 1961 (age 60)
Nationality Irish
Spouse(s)

Mary Fiona Carlin

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(one thousand. 1988)​
Alma mater Academy College Dublin
Occupation Museum Director

Brian Patrick Kennedy (born v Nov 1961) is an Irish-built-in fine art museum manager who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United states of america. He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for 17 months, resigning Dec 31st, 2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the managing director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Commonwealth of australia (Canberra) from 1997–2004.

Career [edit]

Brian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States after leaving Australia in 2005 to direct the Hood Museum of Fine art at Dartmouth College. In October 2010 he became the ninth Manager of the Toledo Museum of Fine art.[1] On 1 July 2019, he succeeded Dan Monroe equally the executive manager and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.[ii]

Early life and career in Ireland [edit]

Kennedy was born in Dublin and attended Clonkeen Higher. He received B.A. (1982), G.A. (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from Academy Higher-Dublin, where he studied both art history and history.

He worked in the Irish Department of Education (1982), the European Committee, Brussels (1983), and in Republic of ireland at the Chester Beatty Library (1983–85), Government Publications Role (1985–86), and Department of Finance (1986–89). He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.[iii] [4]

He was Assistant Director at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of the Irish Association of Fine art Historians from 1996–97,[5] and of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors from 2001–03. In September 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA) [edit]

Kennedy expanded the traveling exhibitions and loans program throughout Australia,[ citation needed ] arranged for several major shows of Australian art away,[ citation needed ] increased the number of exhibitions at the museum itself[ citation needed ] and oversaw the development of an all-encompassing multi-media site. Although he oversaw several years of the museum's highest ever annual visitation,[ citation needed ] he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, Betty Churcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.

During his directorship, the NGA gained government back up for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However, the initial design for the building proved controversial generating a public dispute with the original builder on moral rights grounds. As a event, the project was non delivered during Dr Kennedy's tenure, with a significantly contradistinct blueprint completed some years after. Individual funding supported ii acquisitions of British fine art, including David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon in 1999, and Lucian Freud's Later on Cézanne in 2001. Kennedy built on the established collections at the museum by acquiring the Holmgren-Spertus drove of Indonesian textiles; the Kenneth Tyler collection of editioned prints, screens, multiples and unique proofs; and the Australian Impress Workshop Annal. He was also notable for candidature for the construction of a new "front" entrance to the Gallery, facing King Edward Terrace, which was completed in 2010 (come across reference to the building projection above).

Kennedy's cancellation of the "Sensation exhibition" (scheduled at the NGA from two June 2000 to thirteen August 2000) was controversial, and seen by some as censorship. He claimed that the decision was due to the exhibition existence "too shut to the market" implying that a national cultural institution cannot exhibit the individual collection of a speculative art investor. However, in that location were other exhibitions at the NGA during his tenure, which could have raised similar concerns. The exhibition featured the privately endemic Young British Artists works belonging to Charles Saatchi and attracted large attendances in London and Brooklyn. Its about controversial work was Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, a painting which used elephant dung and was accused of being blasphemous. The so-mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, campaigned confronting the exhibition, claiming it was "Catholic-bashing" and an "aggressive, roughshod, disgusting attack on faith." In November 1999, Kennedy cancelled the exhibition and stated that the events in New York had "obscured discussion of the artistic merit of the works of art". He has said that it "was the toughest conclusion of my professional person life, so far."[6]

Kennedy was besides repeatedly questioned on his management of a range of issues during the Australian Authorities'south Senate Estimates procedure - particularly on the NGA'due south occupational health and rubber record and concerns nearly the NGA's twenty-year-old air-conditioning organization. The air-conditioning was finally renovated in 2003.[7] Kennedy appear in 2002 that he would non seek extension of his contract beyond 2004, accepting a vii-year term as had his two predecessors.[8]

He became a joint Irish-Australian citizen in 2003.[9]

Toledo Museum of Fine art [edit]

The Toledo Museum of Fine art is known for its exceptional collections of European and American paintings and sculpture, drinking glass, antiquities, artist books, Japanese prints and netsuke. The Museum offers free admission and is recognized for its historical leadership in the field of fine art instruction. During his tenure, Kennedy has focused the Museum's fine art education efforts on visual literacy, which he defines equally "learning to read, understand and write visual language." Initiatives have included baby[10] and toddler tours, specialized training for all staff, docents, volunteers and the launch of a website, world wide web.vislit.org. In November 2014, the Museum hosted the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) conference, the showtime Museum to do and so.[11] Kennedy has been a frequent speaker on the topic, including 2010[12] and 2013[13] TEDx talks on visual and sensory literacy.

Kennedy has expressed an interest in expanding the Museum's drove of contemporary fine art and art past ethnic peoples.[fourteen] Works past Frank Stella, Sean Scully, Jaume Plensa,[15] Ravinder Reddy[16] and Mary Sibande[17] accept been acquired. In addition, the Museum has fabricated major acquisitions of Onetime Primary paintings past Frans Hals[18] and Luca Giordano.[xix]

During his tenure the Toledo Museum of Fine art has announced the return of several objects from its collection due to claims the objects were stolen and/or illegally exported prior being sold to the Museum. In 2011 a Meissen sweetmeat stand was returned to Germany followed by an Etruscan Kalpis or water jug to Italy (2013), an Indian sculpture of Ganesha (2014)[xx] and an astrological compendium to Deutschland in 2015.[21] [22]

Hood Museum of Art [edit]

Kennedy became Director of the Hood Museum of Fine art in July 2005.[23] During his tenure, he implemented a series of large and modest-calibration exhibitions and oversaw the production of more than than 20 publications to bring greater public attention to the museum'southward remarkable collections of the arts of America, Europe, Africa, Papua New Republic of guinea and the Polar regions. At seventy,000 objects, the Hood has i of the largest collections on any American higher of university campus. The exhibition, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Trunk, toured several United states of america venues. Kennedy increased campus curricular use of works of art, with thousands of objects pulled from storage for classes annually. Numerous acquisitions were made with the museum's generous endowments, and he curated several exhibitions: including Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting Tang Dynasty Poesy, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, and Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons.[24]

Publications [edit]

Kennedy has written or edited a number of books on art, including:

  • Alfred Chester Beatty and Republic of ireland 1950-1968: A study in cultural politics, Glendale Press (1988), ISBN 978-0-907606-49-9
  • Dreams and responsibilities: The land and arts in contained Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland (1990), ISBN 978-0-906627-32-seven
  • Jack B Yeats: Jack Butler Yeats, 1871-1957 (Lives of Irish gaelic Artists), Unipub (Oct 1991), ISBN 978-0-948524-24-0
  • The Anatomy Lesson: Fine art and Medicine (with Davis Coakley), National Gallery of Ireland (January 1992), ISBN 978-0-903162-65-4
  • Republic of ireland: Art into History (with Raymond Gillespie), Roberts Rinehart Publishers (1994), ISBN 978-1-57098-005-3
  • Irish gaelic Painting, Roberts Rinehart Publishers (November 1997), ISBN 978-i-86059-059-seven
  • Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Fine art (October 2008), ISBN 978-0-944722-34-iii
  • Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-1966, Hood Museum of Art (Oct 2010), ISBN 978-0-944722-39-viii

Honors and achievements [edit]

Kennedy was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian Club and its fine art.[25] He is a trustee and treasurer of the Association of Art Museum Directors, a peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums and a member of the International Association of Fine art Critics. In 2013 he was appointed inaugural eminent professor at the University of Toledo and received an honorary doctorate from Lourdes Academy.[26] Most recently, Kennedy received the 2014 Northwest Region, Ohio Art Education Association award for distinguished educator for art education.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ "Brian P. Kennedy called every bit new manager of Toledo Museum of Art". Cleveland Plain Dealer. 30 June 2010.
  2. ^ Selvin, Claire (8 March 2019). "Peabody Essex Museum Appoints Brian Kennedy every bit Executive Manager and CEO". ARTnews . Retrieved one July 2019.
  3. ^ Who's Who in Australia. 2004.
  4. ^ Who's Who in America. 2009.
  5. ^ "Arts and human rights". Humanities Research Centre, Australian National Academy. 30 July 2003. Retrieved 17 October 2006.
  6. ^ Valerie Chiliad. Arvidson (2006). "A Curator from the Outback". Dartmouth Complimentary Printing. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved xiv October 2006.
  7. ^ "Passing on a 'poisoned beaker'". The Age. 14 February 2004. Retrieved fourteen October 2006.
  8. ^ "National Gallery Director resigns". PM. nine Feb 2004. Retrieved 10 November 2006.
  9. ^ Alan Ramsey. "The Irish gaelic-Aussie eyes were grin", Sydney Morning Herald, 28 August 2004. Retrieved 24 July 2014
  10. ^ "TAP Tested: TMA Baby Tours". Toledo Parent News. May 2013. Retrieved thirty Apr 2015.
  11. ^ "IVLA 2014 Conference Registration". ivla.org. International Visual Literacy Association. Archived from the original on 17 May 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  12. ^ "Visual Literacy: Why We Demand Information technology". YouTube. TEDx Talks. Archived from the original on nineteen Dec 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  13. ^ "Sensory Literacy: Brian Kennedy at TEDx Toledo". YouTube. TEDx Toledo. Archived from the original on xix December 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  14. ^ Criswell, Kristen (ix September 2010). "Brian Kennedy starts as new managing director of TMA". Toledo Complimentary Printing. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  15. ^ Lane, Tahree (13 March 2013). "Superstar sculptor Jaume Plensa to requite a talk at the fine art museum". The Blade . Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  16. ^ "Apollo Society Acquires Gimmicky Indian Piece of work". Toledo Museum of Fine art. Archived from the original on xv April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  17. ^ "Apollo Society Selects Works by Global Contemporary Artists". Toledo Museum of Fine art. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 29 Apr 2015.
  18. ^ Lane, Tahree (4 October 2011). "Toledo Museum of Art gets prized Dutch painting". The Blade . Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  19. ^ Lindstrom, Linda (14 November 2014). "Toledo Museum of Art unveils Italian Baroque masterpiece". The Blade . Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  20. ^ Mashberg, Tom (seven April 2015). "Museums Begin Returning Artifacts to India in Response to Investigation". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  21. ^ Mullen, Roneisha (ii October 2014). "Bronze statue on display at Toledo Museum of Fine art existence returned to Government of Bharat". The Blade . Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  22. ^ "Provenance". toledomuseum.org. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  23. ^ "Brian Kennedy appointed Managing director of Dartmouth'due south Hood Museum of Fine art". Dartmouth News. viii March 2005. Archived from the original on 24 September 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2006.
  24. ^ "Past Exhibitions". Hood Museum of Fine art. Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on v May 2015. Retrieved 30 Apr 2015.
  25. ^ Information technology'south an Honor. Retrieved 24 July 2014
  26. ^ "Lourdes Academy's Kickoff". Toledo Blade. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 30 Apr 2015.
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Preceded by

Betty Churcher

 Director of the National Gallery of Commonwealth of australia
1997–2004 		Succeeded by

Ron Radford

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