Richard Koshalek Biography

Richard Koshalek is the president of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Before taking over Art Center's top spot in 1999 with a mandate to raise money and expand the campus Koshalek 67 was an institution-building director of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art (1980-1990). lek said in a statement that he is eager to help the Hirshhorn "make a unique contribution not only to the history of modern and contemporary art but to the larger appreciation of the role of the arts in society." Last spring Art Center's board of trustees refused Koshalek's request for a contract extension as students and alumni of the design school complained that he had focused too much on expanding the campus with a then-proposed now in limbo new building by Frank Gehry and on building Arts Center's reputation nationally and internationally and not enough on preserving educational quality and raising money to offset students' tuition costs.

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