On July 1, the Crocker Art Museum welcomed its first new director and CEO in a quarter century. Before taking the helm of the Crocker, Agustín Arteaga spent eight years as the director of the Dallas Museum of Art. He has also led major museums in Puerto Rico, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, where he was the director of the country’s national art museum; has overseen or curated major retrospectives of renowned creatives like Frida Kahlo, Roy Lichtenstein, Diego Rivera and Christian Dior; and has served on the board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts since 2020. Weeks before starting his new position, he talked to us from Dallas about his vision for the Crocker’s future, the need for museums to reflect their communities, and the importance of raising our museum’s international profile.
