Crystal Bridges Museum Appoints Courtenay Finn as Chief Curator
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The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has appointed Courtenay Finn, formerly chief curator and director of programs at the Orange County Museum of Art (now UC Irvine Langson OCMA), as its new chief curator. Finn will also oversee the Momentary, the museum's performing arts wing, starting August 24. She succeeds Austen Barron Bailly, who was promoted to deputy chief director of curatorial affairs earlier this year.
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· 4 pulledThe Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has named Courtenay Finn as its new chief curator.
Finn was most recently chief curator and director of programs at California's Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA; now the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art).
She will begin her new job—which additionally encompasses Momentary, the museum's performing arts wing—on August 24.
She succeeds Austen Barron Bailly in the role; Bailly earlier this year was promoted to deputy chief director of curatorial affairs.
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