For Immediate Release
November 2000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF
MAY CASTLEBERRY TO DIRECT NEW LIBRARY COUNCIL PROGRAM
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed May Castleberry to the position of
Editor for the Library Council. The Library Council is a new program
established to create special publications in support of the MoMA Library
and Museum Archives. Milan R. Hughston, Chief of Library and Museum
Archives, will be leading the Library Council with Ms. Castleberry.
Ms. Castleberry will direct the production of a biannual, limited-edition
publication that will pair distinguished contemporary artists and writers.
Combining original artwork and new literary writing in fine-press editions,
the Library Council publications will chart the rich possibilities of
literary and visual collaboration.
Ms. Castleberry founded and directed the Artists and Writers Series of the
Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Among the 19 books
Ms. Castleberry edited for the Whitney program between 1983 and 2000 are
Hiddenness, by Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (1987); Heat by
Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Gober (1989); The First Picture Book: Everyday
Things for Babies, by Mary Steichen Calderone, Edward Steichen, and John
Updike (1992); and Phrase Book, by Fred Tomaselli and Rick Moody (2000).
Through their annual contributions, the Library Council members will help to
build the Library's collection of research and archival materials, and will
advise on new acquisitions, including books, institutional archives, and
primary documents of modern art, rare periodicals, and exceptional bodies of
research material. In collaboration with Museum staff, the Council will
help identify and secure funds to acquire, conserve and make accessible key
publications and papers. In an effort to broaden the scope of the Library
collections, the Council will assist in obtaining new material from
international sources and in making Library material accessible to a wide
range of users.
Ms. Castleberry served as Librarian of the Whitney from 1978 to 1992, as the
Irma and Benjamin Weiss Librarian and Associate Curator for Special
Collections at the Whitney from 1993 to 2000, and as Interim Curator of
Photography at the Whitney between 1998 and 1999. During her tenure at the
Whitney, she organized numerous exhibitions and contributed essays for
museum publications. She is a current recipient of a Getty Curatorial
Research Fellowship for 2000, in support of research for an exhibition and a
book on the photography of ancient monuments in the Americas. She has also
received grants for exhibition planning and research from the Nathan
Cummings Foundation, and from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Ms.
Castleberry completed her undergraduate studies at Southern Methodist
University, followed by Masters degrees in Library Service and American
Studies at Columbia University and New York University, respectively.
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