Maxwell L. Anderson

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Maxwell L. Anderson
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Born (1956-05-02) May 2, 1956 (age 68)[citation needed]
New York, New York, USA
Occupation Eugene McDermott Director, Dallas Museum of Art
Spouse(s) Jacqueline Anderson (m. 1995)

Maxwell L. Anderson (born May 2, 1956) was the Eugene McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas, USA.[1]

Early life and education

The son of Columbia University's Julian Clarence Levi Professor Quentin Anderson and grandson of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson, he was born in 1956 in New York City and raised there, attending Collegiate School (New York) and graduating from The Dalton School. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1977 with highest distinction in Art History, and A.M. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in the history of Art from Harvard University.[2]

Career

Maxwell Anderson worked as a curatorial assistant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and subsequently as assistant curator from 1981–87,[3] and became director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia (1987–1995),[4] director of Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario (1995–1998),[5] the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (1998–2003).[6] and the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.[7]

In 2003, Anderson resigned from the Whitney Museum over disagreements with Board leadership about the Museum’s artistic direction,[8] and became a Leadership Fellow at the Yale School of Management's Chief Executive Leadership Program, and subsequently joined AEA Consulting of London and New York, a firm advising cultural institutions on planning and programming. In 2006, he resumed his career as a museum director in Indianapolis.[9] Since arriving at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the museum has added over $30 million to its endowment through gifts and pledges and has more than doubled museum attendance to reach some 450,000 visitors annually.[1][2]

He has lectured and published widely on general issues of museum practice, especially on the ethical collecting of antiquities,[3] institutional transparency, free expression, artists’ rights, and uses of new technologies.[10] Anderson is a former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and trustee of the American Federation of Arts.[2] In 1990, he was decorated with the rank of Commendatore (Knight Commander) in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic [11] and in 2010 was awarded the French Republic's rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters).[2][12]

New media

Anderson was one of the earliest proponents of using new media technologies to advance public interest in art.[13] As Liaison for Information Technology of the AAMD and a Member of the Advisory Council of the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP) he helped found the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1997 and the Art Museum Network in 1999.[14] In 2008, he modeled museum transparency with the award winning IMA Dashboard [15] and in 2009, he launched ArtBabble, a site for art museums worldwide to share video content.[16]

References

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