Hiromi Kinoshita, an expert in Chinese art and archaeology, has been named associate curator of Chinese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first curator at the museum to focus on the subject since 2004.
Kinoshita, 41, is currently assistant curator of Chinese art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She will take up her Philadelphia responsibilities, which include a renewed museum emphasis on its extensive Chinese holdings, on April 1.
Timothy Rub, art museum director, said the position of associate curator had recently been endowed by an anonymous donor and a grant from H.F. "Gerry" and Marguerite Lenfest, providing an opportunity "to focus - through reinstallation, research, and programming - on an area that needs more attention."
