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Kevin Salatino named the Huntington’s Director of Art Collections

SAN MARINO, CA.- Kevin Salatino, 55, director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, has been named the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. He joins the Huntington staff in July. Salatino takes the helm from John Murdoch, who retires in June after 10 years. A New England native, Salatino has extensive museum experience in Los Angeles, having served from 2000 to 2009 as curator and head of the department of prints and drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and before that as curator of graphic arts at the Getty Research Institute. He was named director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2009. “Kevin comes with extraordinary vision and a very healthy sense of the exciting, multi-faceted museum environment that is Los