Lewis Sharp, one of Denver’s highest-profile and longest-serving arts leaders, has agreed to remain director of the Denver Art Museum for three to five years after the October opening of its $90.5 million expansion, he said Monday.
“This is such an important and exciting time for the Denver Art Museum that I need to take the museum through this transition in a way that is most positive for the museum and the community,” he said.
Sharp, who formerly served as curator of American paintings and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, took over as the Denver Art Museum’s director in January 1989.
He had said he would step down shortly after the addition’s opening.
“I found the issue of how long I was going to stay was starting to … become an issue in its own right, and that’s not the important thing,” he said.
