http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/arts/design/curator-from-menil-joins-the-whitney.html 2016-09-16 00:59:26 Curator From Menil Joins the Whitney David Breslin will become the museum’s director of the collection. Cecily Brown has a new gallery. And Billie Jean King is donating personal items. === The Now the museum is announcing a new steward for these holdings: David Breslin, the chief curator of the “I really wanted a partner in thinking about the collection,” said “His role is larger than simply stewarding shows or acquisitions.” Before joining the Menil Collection, Mr. Breslin was associate curator of contemporary projects at the “This is an opportunity at this particular moment in history to draw out the American experience,” Mr. Breslin said. In the couple of years since she left the Gagosian Gallery, As her first New York institutional show, “Rehearsal,” opens at the The gallery will show Ms. Brown’s work in 2017. “Paula has always championed artists who have redefined the art of our times,” said Steven Henry, the gallery’s director. “Cecily is a painter who has consistently looked at how to approach abstraction and representation in new distinctive ways.” The Italian artist Eventually, Ms. Rama — who died last year at 97 — moved on to geometric abstraction before turning to themes of the body and discarded objects. Now Dominique Lévy is announcing her gallery’s exclusive collaboration with the Archivio Carol Rama in the United States and the United Kingdom. (The Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie will continue to represent the Archivio in Berlin.) “She is very much in a unique place if we look at the 20th century,” Ms. Lévy said, “not so much because she’s a woman, but as an artist who starts working in the late ’30s and goes all the way through the late ’90s.” Ms. Lévy likened Ms. Rama to irreverent artists such as Eva Hesse, Robert Gober and Bruce Nauman. “She gets under your skin,” Ms. Lévy said. “She’s an alchemist. She’s a poet.” A white lace tennis dress in which Billie Jean King won the singles titles at the U.S. Open in 1971 and at Wimbledon in 1972. Supportive notes to Ms. King from schoolgirls in anticipation of her 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” game against Bobby Riggs. A baby book with Ms. King’s infant footprints. These are among the items Ms. King is donating to the “I can hardly think of a better way of establishing the objectives of our new center,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and chief executive of the society. “She was the first female sports figure to become a brand.” The institution is also receiving items from the estate of Editta Sherman, a portrait photographer called (by her friend and neighbor In addition, the society’s collection of memorabilia from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four presidential campaigns from 1932 to 1944 will be in an exhibition opening on Sept. 29 at the The show, The Now Melinda Martin Sullivan, a trustee at the Frick Collection, and her husband, Paul Sullivan, have permitted the Frick to choose 14 examples from their Du Paquier collection as a gift, and the pieces will be exhibited beginning Sept. 28. “Du Paquier was an original voice of a very different set of colors — very exuberant forms — with much more interest in sculptural decoration and a real sense of whimsy,” said Marian Goodman “It does extend the possibility of the gallery,” Ms. Goodman said. “This is an addition that gives us more opportunity.” Socrates Sculpture Park