Curatorial Directors-in-Training Matched with Museum Superstars

Did you all catch that cheery curatorial class picture, in yesterday's NY Times, of the inaugural fellows of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, which was established last June to train art curators for museum directorships?

Let me provide what was missing from the NY Times article, by identifying those fine faces in the photo:

Back row, left to right:
Raymond Horton, Lautenberg Professor of Governance and Ethics, Columbia Business School, Colin Bailey, Gary Tinterow, Elizabeth Easton [co-founder of CCL], Liz Armstrong, Laurie Winters

Front row, left to right:
Richard Rand, Zoé Whitley, Paola Morsiani, Eleanor Harvey, Jordana Pomeroy, Silvia Cubiña

But wait, there's more. Get a load of the big names who are serving as mentors and residency supervisors for this merry band of aesthetes. There seems to be a pecking order revealed here: See who got assignments with Emily Rafferty and Henri Loyrette; William Griswold and Max Anderson; Reynold Levy (president of Lincoln Center) and Neil MacGregor; and...what, no Philippe de Montebello?

For Elizabeth Armstrong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Orange County Museum of Art---
Mentor: Jock Reynolds, Director, Yale University Art Gallery
Residency: James Cuno, Director, Art Institute of Chicago

For Colin B. Bailey, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, Frick Collection---
Mentor: Emily Rafferty, President, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Residency: Henri Loyrette, President and Director, Musée du Louvre

For Silvia Karman Cubiña, Director and Chief Curator, Moore Space, Miami---
Mentor: Thelma Golden, Director, Studio Museum in Harlem
Residency: Nancy Spector, Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum

For Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum---
Mentor: Gail Andrews, Director, Birmingham Museum of Art
Residency: Mary Sue Sweeney Price, Director, Newark Museum

For Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art---
Mentor: Susana Torruella Leval, Director Emeritus, El Museum del Barrio
Residency: Anne Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum

For Jordana Pomeroy, Senior Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts---
Mentor: Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum at Duke University
Residency: Mimi Gardner Gates, Director, Seattle Art Museum

For Richard Rand, Senior Curator, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute---
Mentor: William Griswold, Director, The Morgan Library & Museum
Residency: Maxwell Anderson, Director, Indianapolis Museum of Art

For Gary Tinterow, Curator in Charge, Nineteenth Century, Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art---
Mentor: Reynold Levy, President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Residency: Neil MacGregor, Director, The British Museum

For Zoé Nicole Whitley, Curator, Contemporary Programmes, Victoria and Albert Museum, London---
Mentor: Axel Ruger, Director, Van Gogh Museum
Residency: Olga Viso, Director, Walker Art Center

For Laurie Winters, Curator of Earlier European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum---
Mentor: Brent Benjamin, Director, Saint Louis Art Museum
Residency: Michael Shapiro, Director, High Museum of Art

Is Eleanor Jones Harvey aiming for next female director of the Association of Art Museum Directors? Both of her role models have held that post.