He has never appointed a chief curator to oversee artistic activities.
He was appointed chief curator, in January 1939.
In 1961 he was appointed chief curator of the Freer.
Seven years ago, he was ambivalent about switching jobs from chief curator of painting to director.
So far, she doesn't even have a chief curator.
He was appointed chief curator in 1995 and director of the museum in 1996.
He was chief curator of the anthropology department from 1964 to 1970 and became curator emeritus in 1976.
Kirk Johnson, a paleontologist who is the chief curator at the museum, was philosophical about the group.
She later became chief curator, and took the dr.philos.
Rifkin was chief curator of the Hirshhorn from 1986 until 1991.