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Adam D. Weinberg is an art museum curator and director.[1] He has been the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art since October 1, 2003.[2]

Education

He holds a BA from Brandeis University[3] and a master's degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Career

During the 1980s, Weinberg worked at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis under director Martin Friedman, where he served as Director of Education and Assistant Curator. He joined the Whitney in 1989 initially as Director of its branch at the Equitable Center at 52nd and Seventh Avenue. Weinberg was then appointed to the office of artistic and program director of the American Center France in Paris in 1991.[4] Many of its patrons considered his departure over organizational politics a loss to the institution. The Whitney then reappointed him as Curator of the Permanent Collection in 1993, and he was made Senior Curator there in 1998.[5]

Weinberg was the Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, from 1999 until 2003.

In July 2019, after protests at the Whitney[6] led to the resignation from the board of Warren Kanders, he was quoted by The New York Times in a Quotation of the Day: "Every museum director is looking at us right now and saying, 'Gee, if the Whitney is being targeted, what's going to happen to us?'"[7] The Whitney has received criticism under Weinberg's management for keeping Kanders on its board and for the inclusion of British group Forensic Architecture in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.[8][9] In 2013 his $818,752 salary and benefits was criticized by The Wall Street Journal.[10] He is also on the trustees board of the museum.

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