Derek Gillman

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Derek Anthony Gillman (born 7 December 1952) was executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation from August 2006 to January 2014. In 2014, Gillman took up a position at Drexel University as a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Art & Art History and the Museum Leadership graduate program, and is now a distinguished teaching professor [1] and executive director of university collections and exhibitions. [2]

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Education

Gillman was educated at Clifton College, Magdalen College, Oxford (MA), and the University of East Anglia (LLM, 1996). [3] He is author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press 2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War (Oxford University Press, 2022) [4]

Career

Gillman served as president and director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 2001 to 2006. [5]

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References

  1. "Derek Gillman - Westphal College of Media Arts & Design". Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. "Derek Gillman". drexel.edu. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  3. "The Man Who Would Move the Barnes". The New York Times . 28 March 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War. Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 20 September 2022. ISBN   978-0-19-761056-5.
  5. ‘GILLMAN, Derek Anthony’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014