Jeffrey Weiss Departs Dia Art Foundation Directorship

Just over a year after the Dia Art Foundation announced its appointment of Jeffrey Weiss to succeed Michael Govan as its director comes the news that he has resigned. “It is with disappointment that I leave Dia,” said Weiss, the former curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in a statement issued by Dia. “It has become clear to me that Dia’s most pressing needs will be best served by someone whose leadership is not primarily focused on curatorial and scholarly objectives, which have always been central to my ambitions.”