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Maxwell L. Anderson (born May 1, 1956) is an American art historian, former museum administrator, and non-profit executive, who currently serves as President of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
Art historian and arts administrator Maxwell L. Anderson has served as a museum curator, museum director, and foundation president, and today applies his experience to addressing unresolved issues in the art world, from advocating the inclusion of Black artists from the American South in the canon of art history to uncovering major artworks ...
Oct 16, 2015 · The charismatic Maxwell Anderson’s sudden and swift resignation as Dallas Art Museum director left the art world stunned. The story behind it is compelling.
Dec 12, 2021 · Art Scoping is a podcast featuring protagonists in the fields of art, museums, architecture, design, publishing, art law, public policy, and culture generally. We’ll skip the elevator speeches and find out how arts leaders are coping with change, what keeps them up at night, and what gets them out of bed in the morning.
- He’s an actor and a song-and-dance man. When the DMA had counted up the money from its April 2015 Art Ball fundraiser, it thanked its patrons in a special way: with a truly cringe-inducing version of Mark Ronson’s 2014 song Uptown Funk, whose video featured singer Bruno Mars in a pink suit jacket.
- He’s a risk-taker. As Anderson told the Wall Street Journalin 2002, when he was director at the Whitney, he thought of what the museum ought to be doing in unconventional terms, describing the institution as the “‘research and development’ arm of the art world, taking risks on new talent and circumventing critics and dealers to connect directly with artists and museumgoers.
- He’s married. No, he’s single. Wait, he’s married. Anderson married Jacqueline Buckingham, a former actress (As the World Turns, Half Baked, a Canadian production of Rent), in 1995, when he was director of the Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario.
- He comes from a long line of American influencers. Anderson’s grandfather, also Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), was a playwright, poet, and journalist.
Maxwell Anderson is the founder and principal of the Art Museum Network. Over his almost thirty years as a museum director, he led five museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the Dallas Museum of Art.
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In 1994, the Getty Trust commissioned Maxwell Anderson to contribute an essay on optimal ways of measuring museum performance. Anderson’s contribution, titled Metrics of Success in Art Museums, enjoyed a wide readership, and was described by The Washington Post as “an influential broadside.”
