After eight years as an integral a part of The Armory Present, govt director Nicole Berry is exiting not solely that honest however the honest sector altogether. Berry has been named the senior director of donor engagement on the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She is going to start her new submit later this month.
“Since changing into govt director of The Armory Present, it has been my mission to enhance the honest with every version. I’m deeply happy with the accomplishments of our workforce and am grateful for the alternatives I’ve been offered,” Berry mentioned in a press release. “I want the exceptional workforce and the prolonged Frieze community the most effective for this essential milestone yr and sooner or later.”
Frieze’s seek for a brand new director of The Armor Present is “already underway”, based on a press release 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 honest’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 honest as part of Frieze’s bigger administration construction.
Berry turned the chief director of The Armory Present in November 2017. She was employed because the honest’s deputy director the earlier yr, however management on the Vornado Realty Belief, then the proprietor of The Armory Present, elevated her to interchange Benjamin Genocchio after The New York Instances printed 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 greatest be remembered for efficiently main the honest’s properly regarded transfer from Manhattan’s West Facet Piers every March to the Javits Heart every September, beginning in 2021, alongside together with her regular stewardship of the model via 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 most effective in her new function,” Chade’s assertion learn partly.
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 yr.
