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Published on Friday, May 16, 2008
By Daily News Wire Services
Gary Garrels, the highly sought-after curator who has helped raise the profile of the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and beyond, is jumping ship, it was reported today.
The Hammer snagged Garrels, 56, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York three years ago. But now he is moving to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as senior curator of painting and sculpture, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Garrels will start his new job in September, succeeding Madeleine Grynsztejn, who left in March to direct the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, according to The Times.
During his stint as chief curator at the Hammer, Garrels' combination of scholarly acumen and an affinity for new art enlarged its reputation as more than a continuation of the legacy of the late oil executive Armand Hammer, according to The Times.
Hammer founded the museum in 1990 mostly as a repository for his own collection of Old Master, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and 19th century drawings
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