Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson is the Eugene McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art. He holds a bachelors degree from Dartmouth College and a masters and doctorate in art history from Harvard University. Max began his museum career as a curatorial assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has held director positions at several prestigious museums including the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He is a former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and trustee of the American Federation of Arts. He helped found the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1997 and the Art Museum Network in 1999. In 2008, he modeled museum transparency with the award-winning IMA Dashboard and in 2009, he launched ArtBabble, a site for art museums worldwide to share video content