The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art today announced that Julián Zugazagoitia will replace outgoing director and CEO Mark F. Wilson. Zugazagoitia will be the 75-year-old museum's fifth director.
A press release issued this afternoon by the Nelson details Zugazagoitia's credentials and background and helpfully includes a phonetic pronunciation of the 46-year-old's name.
It reads in part:
Born in Mexico City and educated in France, Zugazagoitia speaks six languagesZugazagoitia was most recently director of El Museo del Barrio in New York City. Speaking about his role there, Zugazagoitia told the onlineand has worked at institutions in the Americas, Europe and Africa. Julián
Zugazagoitia (pronounced HOO-lian SZU-ga-sa-GOY-tee-ah) holds a Ph.D. in
Philosophy from the Sorbonne Paris IV, with a focus on Aesthetics and Modernism
in the arts.
business journal Crain's New York in 2004, "This job makes me whole. I can
finally assert my Mexican identity and my Latin American perspective."
Zugazagoitia will move to Kansas City with his wife, Tasha, and twoIt would be cool to report that the children's names are 10 and 6, but those are just their ages. Meanwhile, the Star continues to urge Kansas Citians to get pets to help ease the pain of living here.children, 10 and 6, who have lived in New York all their lives. He has promised
to get them a pet to help ease the transition.
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