Effective November 4, Richard Armstrong will take on the position of Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum. Following a long selection process in which several candidates were brought forward as possible successors of revolutionary director Thomas Krens ¿ who announced his resignation in June of this year after two decades as director of the Guggenheim ¿ members of the Selection Committee declared that ¿Richard Armstrong has the wisdom and demeanor¿as well as the knowledge, stature, and status¿we sought in a new leader for the Foundation (¿)¿. Armstrong specializes in Twentieth Century art from the U.S. He was curator for twelve years of the Whitney Museum and in 1992 was appointed director of the Carnegie Museum, a post he left recently. In addition to being one of New York¿s historical landmarks, the Guggenheim Museum stands out from other great museums for its collection of early non-objectual Modern Art. The future director has communicated the need to complete this collection with works by Matisse, Malevich, and other artists from the early modern current and from the decade of the Forties, because he thinks there are several gaps to fill in order to complete and improve the collection. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has also expressed an interest in researching the possibility of acquiring Asian and Latin-American art works. Once he occupies this new post, Armstrong wants to integrate the branches and increase their capacities in order to generate and exchange exhibitions. At the same time, he will work to develop ties and societies with well-known museums outside of the Guggenheim network, such as the Tate Gallery ¿To me, Tate represents a logical long-term partner¿ . After the expansive and controversial tenure of Thomas Krens, many agree that Armstrong will assert a more traditionalist approach, underscoring the role of the curator in reaffirming the intellectual character of the Museum.