Anne Pasternak

Anne Pasternak (born 1964) is an art critic and curator. She is the current Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum.

Pasternak's career began with an internship turned directorship at the Stux Gallery in Brooklyn in the 1980s. She then received a curatorship at Real Art Ways, an arts nonprofit in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990 she curated an exhibition at Real Art Ways titled "The Abortion Project," which focused on women artists and sparked debate in Hartford's broader community.

In 1993 Anne Pasternak left Real Art Ways and became the executive director of Creative Time. As the director of Creative Time, Pasternak curated and organized numerous exhibitions, events, discussions, and spectacles including the annual "Tribute In Light" event, a memorial for the events of September 11, 2001, and Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" a large public installation that appropriated a foreclosed sugar factory in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.

In 2015, Pasternak left Creative Time and replaced Arnold Lehman as the director of the Brooklyn Museum. Pasternak's directorship at the Brooklyn Museum marks the first time a woman has kept a directing role in an encyclopedic New York museum (the other one being the Metropolitan Museum of Art). As a former director of a public art organization, this new position represents a shift in her career from a broader public sphere into the architecture of a museum.

Pasternak was born in New York City and received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She went on to receive her Masters in Art History from Hunter College, NY.

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