Category: Museum Director
Nationality: American
Last Year: 39
Today there seem to be two players in the LA museum scene – Eli Broad, who rescued MOCA from fiscal disaster and built his own Renzo Piano-designed place – and Ann Philbin, who’s kept the Hammer Museum (which she directs) on course and ahead of the game. This year the Hammer mounted a show of work by young LA sculptors – all donated by savvy collectors Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson – and a Charles Burchfield retrospective curated by Robert Gober. Philbin also hired Douglas Fogle, curator of the last Carnegie International and a veteran of Kathy Halbreich’s reign at the Walker, ensuring that her institution remains innovative and fresh.