The Barnes Foundation Appoints Brett I. Miller To Serve As Its General Counsel
MERION, PA, [November 17, 2009] -- Derek Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, today announced the appointment of Brett I. Miller to serve as the Foundation's General Counsel.
Mr. Miller is currently a partner at the firm of Morgan Lewis in its Washington, DC office. Mr. Miller has begun his work with the Barnes Foundation on a part-time basis, and will assume his duties full-time in January 2010.
"We are exceptionally fortunate to welcome Brett Miller to the Barnes Foundation as our General Counsel," Derek Gillman stated. "I can think of few other attorneys who combine his expertise in a broad range of museum legal issues, particularly in the intellectual property area, with a profound knowledge of art history and museum practice. He is an outstanding addition to our executive team as we move forward with our plans for the Barnes Foundation."
Mr. Miller received his J.D. in 1995 from the University of Virginia. He served as a post-graduate law clerk in the General Counsel's Office of The Museum of Modern Art in 1995. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Miller worked on graduate-level studies in art history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and at Columbia University. He also served as the associate curator of collections of the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida. He earned his B.A. in art history from Emory University in 1985.
Mr. Miller's work in private practice has been focused on the intellectual property and corporate transactional matters, as well as related litigation, representing a wide range of clients from Fortune 100 companies to numerous museums and other nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Miller is a frequent writer and speaker on museum legal issues. He is a co-author of A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (American Association of Museums, 1999). Most recently, he served as moderator of the Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative's Rights Issues Round Table, a forum of fourteen in-house lawyers representing some of the Nation's leading art museums and collecting institutions. He also serves on the board of directors of the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.
About the Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture." Currently located in a 12-acre arboretum, the Paul Cret-designed Gallery houses one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine and de Chirico, as well as Old Master paintings, important examples of African sculpture and Native American ceramics, American paintings and decorative arts, and antiquities from the Mediterranean region and Asia.
The Foundation is currently in the process of relocating from Merion, Pennsylvania, to a new 93,000-square-foot building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, Philadelphia. Designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the building is scheduled to be completed in late 2011. The collection will be displayed in 12,000 square feet of exhibition space that replicates the scale, proportion and configuration of the original galleries in Merion. The new building also will house a 5,000-square-foot space devoted to special exhibitions, as well as classrooms, a 150-seat auditorium, and much-needed facilities for painting conservation and research.
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For more information contact:
The Barnes Foundation
Andrew Stewart, (610) 667-0290 x1567
astewart@barnesfoundation.org
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