Kathleen V. Jameson Named Speed Museum Director
The New Museum's new board members, Alison Rossiter works acquired by The Met, a record-breaking David Hockney show, and more in Art Movements.
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Speed Museum Names New Director
Kathleen V. Jameson is returning to the Speed Museum, where she spent a formative period of her career, as its new director. A scholar of American art and photography, Jameson comes to the Kentucky institution from the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she established the first digital media program. Her three-decade trajectory is stacked with roles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, among others.
“Returning to Louisville and to the Speed is deeply meaningful to me,” Jameson said in a statement. “My time here as a graduate student helped shape both my scholarship and my career in museums, and I have always valued the Speed’s commitment to artistic excellence and connection.”
Acquisitions
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired two works by Alison Rossiter from her series of assemblages of expired photographic papers. According to Yossi Milo Gallery, one of the works, "Semblance, Man Ray Tapestry (4)" (2026), was inspired by Rossiter's experience of seeing Man Ray's original work at the Jewish Museum in 2009.
- The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria” (1607), a previously unidentified altarpiece by Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana.
- The Art Gallery of Ontario has acquired six works by Toronto artist Brian Groombridge, to be featured in a solo exhibition of Groombridge's prints and sculptures from 1989–2021 opening at the museum September 12.
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