Artwork Institute of Chicago (AIC) President and Director James Rondeau has taken a voluntary depart of absence amid an ongoing investigation into accusations of stripping in public whereas aboard a flight to Germany final month.
After the aircraft landed, cops had been known as to the scene in response to stories {that a} passenger had taken off his garments.
“The Art Institute takes this very seriously and has opened an independent investigation into the incident to gather all available information,” an AIC spokesperson informed Hyperallergic in a press release.
United Airways declined to remark. Rondeau has not but responded to Hyperallergic’s inquiry.
Based in 1879 because the Chicago Academy of Positive Arts, the AIC is without doubt one of the United States’s most internationally recognizable arts museums, identified for its everlasting assortment of greater than 300,000 works, which started with a selected deal with avant-garde European portray and sculpture, and for its affiliated arts establishment, the Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago.
Rondeau, who makes greater than $1 million a 12 months in wage (as of 2023), has been with the museum for almost three a long time. He first joined the AIC in 1998 as an affiliate curator of latest artwork earlier than shifting right into a curator place of Fashionable and Modern Artwork in 2004.
