Soyoung Yoon Appointed Director of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has announced Soyoung Yoon as the new director of its prestigious Independent Study Program, effective immediately. Yoon, herself a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow of the ISP’s 2006–2007 cohort, arrives to her new job from Parsons School of Design at the New School, where she was director of the fine […]

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