After eight years as an integral a part of The Armory Present, govt director Nicole Berry is exiting not solely that truthful however the truthful sector altogether. Berry has been named the senior director of donor engagement on the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She’s going to start her new put up later this month.
“Since turning into govt director of The Armory Present, it has been my mission to enhance the truthful with every version. I’m deeply pleased with the accomplishments of our workforce and am grateful for the alternatives I’ve been offered,” Berry mentioned in an announcement. “I want the outstanding workforce and the prolonged Frieze community the very best for this essential milestone 12 months and sooner or later.”
Frieze’s seek for a brand new director of The Armor Present is “already underway”, in keeping with an announcement attributed to Kristell Chadé, the organisation’s govt director of festivals. Chade and Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of Americas, will handle The Armory Present till the truthful’s subsequent director is employed, with Chade pledging the association will “guarantee a clean transition for all”.
The information of Berry’s departure comes roughly eight months after Frieze introduced its acquisitions of The Armory Present and Expo Chicago, arguably the 2 main regional festivals within the US. The timing signifies that Berry will depart with out overseeing a single version of the previous truthful as part of Frieze’s bigger administration construction.
Berry grew to become the chief director of The Armory Present in November 2017. She was employed because the truthful’s deputy director the earlier 12 months, however management on the Vornado Realty Belief, then the proprietor of The Armory Present, elevated her to switch Benjamin Genocchio after The New York Occasions revealed accusations from a number of girls saying Genocchio had inappropriately touched them and made sexual feedback to them throughout his time because the director there, in addition to throughout his tenures as an editor at each Artnet and Artinfo.
As govt director of The Armory Present, Berry will maybe finest be remembered for efficiently main the truthful’s effectively regarded transfer from Manhattan’s West Aspect Piers every March to the Javits Heart every September, beginning in 2021, alongside together with her regular stewardship of the model by way of the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous to her hiring by The Armory Present, she was the deputy director of Expo Chicago.
“We’re grateful for Nicole’s contribution to The Armory Present during the last eight years, and need her all the very best in her new function,” Chade’s assertion learn partially.
On the Hammer, Berry will be part of a museum that’s itself in transition. It was introduced final autumn that Ann Philbin, who has led the establishment for the previous 25 years, will step down on 1 November. The Hammer’s board of administrators was mentioned to have begun the seek for her substitute early this 12 months.
