The Met’s Quincey Houghton delivering the Betty Churcher AO Memorial Oration at NGA, Canberra. Photo: Supplied.
This year the Betty Churcher AO Memorial Oration at the National Gallery of Australia was delivered by Quincy Houghton, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and International Initiatives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – one of the world’s largest and most complex collecting institutions.
When the Getty Center opened in 1997, the institution needed to establish its identity. Houghton explained: ‘One priority we established early on, was that the exhibitions program would be anchored in the permanent collection.’
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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