New face for Pompidou’s US fundraising arm

The New York-based non-profit, the Centre Pompidou Foundation, is beefing up its operation by appointing Florence Derieux, the director of the Frac Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, as its curator of American art. A press statement outlines her role, saying that Derieux will "support the Centre Pompidou with an expanding programme of acquisitions and donations of American art". Derieux will need to keep up the pace: more than 450 works have been acquired by the Foundation, which has also raised more than $50m (key acquisitions this year include Jim Shaw’s Crystal Landscape, Banyan Tree and Octopus Temple, 2011). Derieux also takes on the role of curator-at-large for the Centre Pompidou.