What Does the Future Art Museum Look Like?

CMA’s Timothy Rub at The City Club of Cleveland

CLEVELAND: Timothy Rub, director and CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Art, will speak on the topic “Tomorrow’s Art Museum” at noon on Friday, January 19, 2007, at The City Club of Cleveland.

Rub is the seventh director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He began his tenure in April 2006 after serving for six years as the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and for nine years as director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Rub graduated from Middlebury College in 1974 with a B.A. and highest honors in Art History and then enrolled in the doctoral program at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts where he earned an M.A. and a Certificate in Curatorial Studies. Later, he received an M.B.A. from the Yale University School of Management and participated in the Harvard University program for Art Museum Directors.

Rub, who is specialist in architectural history and modern and contemporary art, began his curatorial career as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.

This Forum is sponsored by National City. Tickets for this City Club Friday Forum are $18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance of the event. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.

Editor’s Note: All City Club Friday Forums are webcast live at the homepage of www.cityclub.org. They are also available via podcast within a week of the program. They are also broadcast on WVIZ, channel 25 (Cleveland) at 10:00AM on subsequent Sundays.