Arnold lehman biography

Arnold Lehman is Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Senior Advisor at Phillips auction house....

Phillips Hires Former Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman as a Senior Advisor

Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he was retiring from his post as director of the Brooklyn Museum, a job he has held since 1997.

Today, however, it became clear that his retirement won’t last very long, with Phillips announcing that he has joined the auction house as a senior advisor to its chairman and CEO, Edward Dolman.

Dolman joined Phillips last July after having spent 27 years at Christie’s and three years as the executive director of the Qatar Museums Authority.

An interview with Arnold Lehman, conducted 2015 March 30-April 20, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at the Brooklyn Museum in Brookly.

Arnold Lehman was born in Brooklyn in 1944.

Arnold Lehman is Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Senior Advisor at Phillips auction house.

The former director of the Brooklyn Museum, who served for almost 18 years, Mr. Lehman, 72, was born in the borough.

Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum.

In the past year, Dolman has been trying to turn Phillips into a bigger competitor in the contemporary art market. “I watched Phillips evolve as a business with great interest from my desk at Christie’s, constantly thinking about the potential it had then as a competitor,” Dolman told ARTnews in February.

To further establish Phillips as a major force in Asia, Dolman hired Matt