The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of Maria Castro to the position of Jacques & Natasha Gelman Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, following a comprehensive search. Castro’s prior experience includes positions as a Leonard A. Lauder Predoctoral Research Fellow in Modern Art at The Met and an internship at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. In her role as Jacques & Natasha Gelman Associate Curator, Castro will work alongside colleagues in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art to reimagine, contextualize, and grow its presentations of art from 1890 to 1950. She has published and presented research on modern art, including on artists Tarsila do Amaral and Diego Rivera, and is currently co-organizing a forthcoming exhibition and catalogue on Henri Matisse’s iconic painting Femme au chapeau of 1905 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Additionally, Castro was 2016–18 Leonard A. Lauder Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at The Met, where she conducted research on collectors and cultural agents from Latin America, the United States, and Europe for the Modern Art Index Project.