Smithsonian American Art Museum Hires Met’s Star Modern Art Curator

Randall Griffey, a curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary art department who has organized a string of acclaimed shows, has joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., as its new head curator.
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where he will begin this summer, Griffey will oversee a reinstallation of the institution’s permanent collection galleries and supervise the curatorial staff. The lead curatorial role was most recently fill