St. Pete’s Museum Of Fine Arts Names New Director, Kent Lydecker

Kent Lydecker, a teacher of museum studies at Johns Hopkins University since 2009, has been named the new director of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.Prior to his position at Johns Hopkins, Lydecker was the associate director for education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1993 to 2008. He also worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Art Institute of Chicago.MFA Board of trustees president Seymour Gordon hopes to expand its endowment fund for operating expenses from $400,000 to $5 million in the years to come, according to the St. Petersburg Times.Read the complete story.