{"id":734902,"date":"2026-08-11T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734902\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:42:10","slug":"michael-j-anderson-appointed-director-of-portland-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734902\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Anderson appointed director of Portland Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Michael-Anderson-2026-Headshot1-60-975x500-1.jpg\"   alt=\"Michael J. Anderson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"Figure__Image-fcctl-2 sKXqu\"\/>Courtesy Portland Art Museum<\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">Michael J. Anderson has been appointed director of the newly-expanded Portland Art Museum (PAM). He will start his new position on 12 October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">Anderson joins PAM from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) where he has worked since 2014, first as film curator and director of curatorial before becoming president and CEO in 2019. At OKCMOA, he expanded the museum\u2019s film programme, curated more than 16 exhibitions, and led a reinterpretation of the museum\u2019s permanent collection, focusing on access geared towards better serving Oklahoma City\u2019s Spanish-speaking communities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography__Paragraph-takw91-2 cxinL\">\u2018We sought a Director who would build on the exciting possibilities created by the Museum\u2019s transformation,\u2019 said Alix Meier Goodman,  co-chair of the search committee. \u2018Michael is a thoughtful, disciplined leader who can leverage the Museum\u2019s existing strengths to expand its public impact and help animate every aspect of the program and campus.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artreview.com\/author\/artreview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ArtReview<\/a><a class=\"article__ArticleFooterCategory-sc-7i165q-15 ikkLrq\" href=\"https:\/\/artreview.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>August 11, 2026artreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy Portland Art Museum Michael J. Anderson has been appointed director of the newly-expanded Portland Art Museum (PAM).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}