The Toledo Museum of Art has chosen a former, longtime curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to be its consulting curator of ancient art.
Carlos A. Picon most recently comes from the Colnaghi art gallery, where he is credited with launching the gallery’s ancient art practice in 2017.
He served as the curator of the Greek & Roman Art Department of the New York museum for 30 years, and worked with the San Antonio Museum of Art’s ancient art collection before that.
Mr. Picon fills a role last held by the current museum director, Adam Levine, who was TMA’s curator of ancient art and deputy director before leaving for a directorship at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Fla. in 2018. He returned to Toledo last year.
A native of San Juan, Mr. Picon has a bachelor of arts degree in classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College, and a master’s and doctorate from the University of Oxford in classical archaeology.
First Published February 4, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
