{"id":159120,"date":"2026-02-18T00:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:31:05","slug":"james-museum-executive-director-robin-nicholson-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159120\/","title":{"rendered":"James Museum executive director Robin Nicholson dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Nicholson, the James Museum of Western &amp; Wildlife Art\u2019s executive director since 2023, died Tuesday following a sudden illness. His death was announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the museum said more information would be made available over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, Nicholson had a Masters in Art History from the University of Cambridge, and was a renowned scholar of the art of the 18th century Stuart royal courts in Paris and Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2006 and 2014, he served Deputy Director for Art and Education, and Head of Exhibitions, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked in management positions at Pittsburgh\u2019s Frick Museum and Savannah\u2019s Telfair Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>At the James Museum, Nicholson succeeded Laura Hine as executive director.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/catching-up-with-robin-nicholson-the-james-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2024 Catalyst interview<\/a>, he discussed expanding the James Museum\u2019s scope by including more works by indigenous artists, works that didn\u2019t not necessarily reflect history, lore and purely indigenous culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we owe it to those who come after us that we get things right,\u201d he said. \u201cNow. So we are working on a strategic plan at the moment \u2013 most strategic plans are three or five years, but I want to set the baseline for the next \u2026 what will the museum look like in 25 years? 50 years from now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Nicholson, the James Museum of Western &amp; Wildlife Art\u2019s executive director since 2023, died Tuesday following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-159120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}