Director Nasher Sculpture Center | Dallas, Texas The Nasher Sculpture Center has announced Carlos Basualdo as the next Director. Basualdo joined the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) as a senior curator in 2005 and was promoted to deputy director and chief curator at the end of 2022, becoming the museum’s first ever chief curator. Basualdo is known for his scholarly, blockbuster exhibitions of Bruce Nauman, the American sculptor, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, a pioneer of the Italian movement Arte Povera, and recent co-lead of the PMA/Whitney innovative Jasper Johns retrospective.At the Nasher, Basualdo will oversee an institution with a $13 million operating budget and a collection of some 500 works, from artists Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and Alberto Giacometti to Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, and Mark di Suvero to Melvin Edwards, Nicole Eisenman, and Simone Leigh. The signature Nasher Prize, established in 2015, is an award dedicated exclusively to excellence in contemporary sculpture.Read more here.Sarah James and Courtney Wilk-Mandel led this search with Hannah Moore and Siobhan Hanley.
