The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Beatrice Galilee, as associate curator of architecture and design. She will work within the department of Modern and Contemporary Art. According to a job posting in The Art Newspaper, the curator will develop collection and research strategies for the department as well as organize collection and special exhibitions, among other duties.

Galilee is a writer and curator, most recently of the Lisbon Design Triennial in 2013, called Close, Closer. She was on of the guests of the Irish Architecture Foundation ‘Agents of Architecture’ talks. She was co-curator of the Gwangju design biennale in 2011 and 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. She was previously the architecture editor of Icon magazine, and holds a MSc in the History of Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London.

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