MoMA PS1 Names New Museum Director

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — MoMA PS1 has named a new museum director.

Kate Fowle of Independent Curators International will lead the contemporary art museum starting in September, MoMA officials announced Wednesday.

Fowle previously worked as the chief curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia.

She succeeds former MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach, who left in October 2018 to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Fowle will be only the third leader in the Long Island City museum's 43-year history, according to The New York Times, and is the first to come from outside the organization.

"She’s an accomplished scholar, a deft curator and an outstanding leader," MoMA director Glenn Lowry told The Times. "She is the first director that comes at it with fresh eyes."

MoMA PS1 began in 1976 as the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. It merged with The Museum of Modern Art in 2000.