James Rondeau will return as director of the Artwork Institute of Chicago following reviews that he had undressed on a airplane to Germany. CBS Information first reported the information on Thursday.
Rondeau had taken a voluntary depart from the museum’s high submit, which he has held since 2016. In keeping with CBS, he’ll resume his function on Monday.
“Board management of the Artwork Institute of Chicago has performed an unbiased investigation of this incident and is assured in James Rondeau’s management and talent to proceed because the President and Director of the museum,” the establishment mentioned in an announcement.
CBS beforehand reported that the investigation arose from an incident that occurred on a airplane from Chicago to Munich in April. It mentioned that police had been “known as to the airplane following reviews of a passenger stripping off his garments.” The passenger was reportedly Rondeau, who “drank alcohol and took prescription treatment.”
In an announcement of his personal, Rondeau mentioned, “I deeply remorse this incident and the impression it has had on the museum and on my colleagues. I’ve devoted the previous 27 years of my skilled profession to the Artwork Institute and I’m grateful to have the chance to proceed furthering its mission.”
He first joined the museum in 1998 as an affiliate curator of up to date artwork, rising to chair of that curatorial division in 2004 and taking the reins on the museum in 2016. His achievements as director embody gaining a $75 million donation from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed final yr in assist of an enlargement for the Nineteenth-century artwork galleries.
