Beningson. (Courtesy the museum)

The Brooklyn Museum announced today that it has hired Susan L. Beningson, an art history professor at the CUNY and Rutgers, as its new assistant curator of Asian art.

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A scholar of Chinese Buddhist and tomb art … she is perhaps better known for her work on such exhibitions as Providing for the Afterlife: “Brilliant Artifacts” from Shandong (China Institute, NY, 2005), Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines” (Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 2009), and Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum (China Institute, NY, 2007) among others. Dr. Beningson will be working with Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art, to re-assess and re-interpret the Brooklyn Museum’s important holdings of Asian art in preparation for a major reinstallation of the Museum’s permanent galleries of Asian and Islamic art, scheduled to open in 2015.