Thomas Sokolowski, Open-Minded Museum Leader with an Activist Spirit, Is Dead at 70

Thomas Sokolowski, who transformed the art world through his leadership of several noted U.S. art institutions and through his AIDS activism, has died at 70 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. An announcement issued to members of the International Association of Art Critics said that he died following a seizure that had caused extensive brain damage.
Over the course of his career, Sokolowski, who was the current director of Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum, held a variety of high-ranking