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Milwaukee, Wis<\/strong>.- October 14, 2016\u2014The Milwaukee Art Museum announced today that its chief curator, Brady Roberts, is leaving to become the executive director\/CEO of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida. Roberts came to the Museum in 2009. During his seven-year tenure, Roberts elevated the institution\u2019s contemporary art program and oversaw the 2015 reinstallation of the Museum\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n As chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Roberts organized several notable exhibition projects. In 2012, Roberts mounted an exhibition of the site-specific installations of New York\u2013based artist Tara Donovan\u2014an artist emerging as one of the most talented of her generation. In that same year, Roberts secured a major video work by the pioneering London-based artist Isaac Julien. Julien\u2019s Expeditions<\/em> trilogy\u2014True North<\/em> (2004), Fant\u00f4me Afrique<\/em> (2005) and Western Union: Small Boats<\/em> (2007)\u2014was, for the first time, presented in its entirety, sequentially, at the Museum. In 2014, together with the Centre Pompidou, Roberts co-organized a major Wassily Kandinsky retrospective. The international partnership with the Paris museum, one of the major repositories of work by Kandinsky, allowed for a rich and comprehensive look at the career of one of the most important and revolutionary artists of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n Roberts played a key role in the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s 2015 major reinstallation project, which culminated in a sweeping renovation of its two original buildings. In addition to leading the first major reinstallation of the Museum\u2019s Collection Galleries, Roberts played a key role in the successful $34 million capital campaign for this project. He also successfully guided key acquisitions by Tara Donovan, Thomas Struth, Yinka Shonabare and David Schnell, among others.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to Mr. Roberts for his significant contributions to the Museum\u2019s curatorial program, ones that lay the foundation for the visionary work of the years ahead,\u201d said Marcelle Polednik, PhD, Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director. \u201cWe wish him great success in his directorial debut at the Vero Beach Museum of Art.\u201d<\/p>\n Roberts\u2019 last day at the Museum is October 21.<\/p>\n About the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n Home to a rich collection of more than 30,000 works of art, the Milwaukee Art Museum is located on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its campus includes the Santiago Calatrava\u2013designed Quadracci Pavilion, annually showcasing three feature exhibitions, and the Eero Saarinen\u2013designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center and David Kahler\u2012designed addition. The Museum recently reopened its Collection Galleries, debuting nearly 2,500 world-class works of art within dramatically transformed galleries and a new lakefront addition.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n Media Contact: <\/strong>Vicky Shokatz \u00a0<\/strong>vshokatz@buzzmonkeyspr.com<\/a>\u00a0\/<\/strong>414-239-0407 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For immediate release: Milwaukee, Wis.- October 14, 2016\u2014The Milwaukee Art Museum announced today that its chief curator, Brady Roberts, is leaving to become the executive director\/CEO of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida. Roberts came to the Museum in 2009. 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