IN MID-SEPTEMBER, six months after appointing John Elderfield chief curator of painting and sculpture [see Artforum, May 2003], the Museum of Modern Art coolly named two new curators, Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro, to his department. The hires, which follow a number of significant curatorial departures, come at a pivotal moment in the museum's seventy-four-year history, Temkin and Pissarro, who assume their posts this fall, will work alongside fellow curator Anne Umland, Elderfield, and other department heads to reinstall MOMA'S collection in its vast new midtown quarters, scheduled to open late next year. The reinstallation is widely seen as an opportunity to recast the museum's familiar exegesis of the grand modernist narrative for a more restive, contemporary audience.
Curatorial miracles will no doubt be expected of the new appointees, who will share in what amounts to the complete …
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