We don't know if Xavier Rey, the curator and current director of the Marseille museums, likes sky blue.
But by leaving to take the direction of the Museum of modern art housed in the Center Pompidou in Paris, we can bet that he will be satisfied with the gray sky.
“Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, on the proposal of Laurent Le Bon, president of the Center Pompidou, has appointed Xavier Rey as director of the National Museum of Modern Art.
[…] He will take office on October 1, 2021, ”the ministry said in a press release.
A former student of the École normale supérieure, a graduate of HEC and curator from the National Heritage Institute, Xavier Rey began his career at the Musée d'Orsay, before becoming director of collections.
Arrived in 2017 in Marseille
In 2017, he was appointed director of the Museums of Marseille, which brings together nineteen sites with a collection of more than 120,000 works.
"Attentive to the social role of museums, Xavier Rey leads numerous operations with regard to audiences" far removed from the world of culture, underlines the rue de Valois.
At the head of the Museum of Modern Art, the curator will lead "experimental and innovative projects in terms of museography, cultural offerings and partnerships, drawing on the DNA of innovation and multidisciplinarity of the Center Pompidou" , specifies the same source.
The Center Pompidou will close completely at the end of 2023, and for four years, for a gigantic renovation.
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