Derek Gillman

Derek Anthony Gillman (born 7 December 1952) was Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation from August 2006 to January 2014. In 2014 Gillman took up a position at Drexel University as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Art & Art History and the Museum Leadership graduate program, and is now Distinguished Teaching Professor[1] and Senior Adviser to the President for University Collections[2].[3]

Derek Gillman (center) with George W. Bush and Laura Bush

Education

Gillman was educated at Clifton College, Magdalen College, Oxford (MA), and the University of East Anglia (LLM, 1996).[4]

Career

Gillman served as President and Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 2001 to 2006.[5]

gollark: Why? They're all garbage-collected, abstract over raw OS-level stuff, have large runtimes, etc.
gollark: Python is higher-level than JS and Java and such? Really?
gollark: If you actually get the concepts then you can probably pick up a different language fine.
gollark: The syntax isn't very important, the semantics are what matter, and Python is basically your standard modern high-level multiparadigm language so the concepts transfer fine to JS and whatever else.
gollark: Don't start with C++, it has similar problems plus masses of complexity stacked on.

References
  1. "Derek Gillman - Westphal College of Media Arts & Design". Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. "Westphal College News & Events: For Art's Sake". us9.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. "Derek Gillman Steps Down as Executive Director and President of The Barnes Foundation, Joins Drexel University". 4 December 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. "The Man Who Would Move the Barnes". The New York Times. 28 March 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  5. ‘GILLMAN, Derek Anthony’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014


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