REDECORATING AGAIN: Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris has appointed Bénédicte Gady interim director of the museum for a period of nine months, effective immediately.
Gady succeeds art historian Christine Macel, who was named scientific and artistic adviser to Johannes Huth, president of the museum’s board of directors.
Macel had taken the helm of Les Arts Décoratifs in October 2022 after 22 years at the Centre Pompidou contemporary art museum, where she was chief curator.
The development comes the same week that Macel had christened “Private Lives: From the Bedroom to Social Media,” an exhibition for which she was chief curator. It delves into the concept of intimacy from the 18th century through today, raising complex questions about identity, sexuality, security, fraternity and more.
Previously, Gady was in charge of the graphic arts department of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
Her résumé includes eight years at the Musée du Louvre, where she specialized in 17th-century French art and drawings.
She assumes the helm of the museum as it gears up for the centenary of the Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925, considered the birth year of the Art Deco movement and style.
She is to curate two exhibitions next year: “Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, decorator,” and “Nicolas Pineau: Shaping Rococo Art.”