Whitney curator Jane Panetta moves to the Met

Jane Panetta, who has been a curator at the Whitney Museum since 2010, is set to join the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary art department. During her tenure at the Whitney, she curated solo exhibitions for artists such as Juan Antonio Olivares and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and became the director of the collection in 2019. That same year, she co-curated the Whitney Biennial alongside Rujeko Hockley, which faced backlash due to an open letter demanding the resignation of board member Warren Kanders. Panetta also contributed to the museum's first exhibition at its downtown site, America Is Hard to See, in 2015. She succeeds David Breslin, who departed for the Met in 2022. The Met is currently developing a new 80,000 square foot wing for modern and contemporary art, funded in part by a $125 million donation from collectors Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang, who will have the wing named in their honor. The renovation costs total $500 million, and the wing is designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo.