{{Short description|French curator}} '''Pierre Terjanian''' (born in Strasbourg,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pierre Terjanian nommé conservateur au Met |url=https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/462-pierre-terjanian-nomm%C3%A9-conservateur-au-met.html |access-date=August 3, 2020 |website=Le Quotidien de l'Art |language=fr}}</ref> France) is the Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before his appointment as director, Terjanian served as the chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since 2024.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shea |first1=Andrea |date=April 10, 2025 |title=MFA Hires New Director and CEO Pierre Terjanian from Within |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/10/mfa-hires-new-director-pierre-terjanian |access-date=April 11, 2025 |work=WBUR.com |publisher=WBUR |language=en}}</ref> He is also a Curator Emeritus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, having previously been appointed Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator in Charge of The Met's Department of Arms and Armor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arms and Armor Team |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/departments/arms-and-armor/team |access-date=April 11, 2025 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en-US}}</ref> Terjanian has a graduate degree in history from the Université de Metz.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cooper |first1=Ashton |date=July 19, 2012 |title=Met Appoints Expert in Princely Armor |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/terjanian-metropolitan-58957/ |access-date=August 3, 2020 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Prior to his tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which he joined in 2012), he held the dual role of J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor and acting head of the Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture before 1700 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nevadaart.org/event/the-embellishment-of-firearms-an-art-of-its-own/ | title=The Embellishment of Firearms: An Art of its Own }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pierre Terjanian - CCL Class of 2017 |url=https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/ccl-program/pierre-terjanian/ |access-date=August 3, 2020 |website=Center for Curatorial Leadership |language=en-US}}</ref>
Terjanian is the author of ''The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I'' which accompanied and augmented the exhibition he curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kenney |first=Nancy |date=October 30, 2019 |title=In a Conservation Triumph, A 15th-Century Tapestry Highlights the Age of Chivalry |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/knights-at-the-museum-highlight-the-age-of-chivalry |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=April 12, 2025 |website=The Art Newspaper}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |year=2018 |editor-last=Terjanian |editor-first=Pierre |title=The Last Knight: The Art, Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588396747/the-last-knight/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |website=Yale University Press |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en-US |isbn=9781588396747}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Farago |first1=Jason |date=October 25, 2019 |title=At the Met, Heavy Metal on a Continental Scale |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/arts/design/last-knight-armor-metropolitan-museum.html |access-date=April 12, 2025 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=C18 |volume=168 |issue=58126}}</ref> and ''Princely Armor in the Age of Dürer: A Renaissance Masterpiece'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Terjanian |first=Pierre |year=2011 |title=Princely Armor In The Age Of Dürer: A Renaissance Masterpiece In The Philadelphia Museum Of Art |url=https://store.philamuseum.org/princely-armor-in-the-age-of-durer-a-renaissance-masterpiece-in-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/ |access-date=August 3, 2020 |website=Philadelphia Museum Of Art |language=en |isbn=9780876332337}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43446509|jstor = 43446509|last1 = Lawrence|first1 = David R.|title = Reviewed work: Princely Armor in the Age of Dürer: A Renaissance Masterpiece in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pierre Terjanian|journal = Renaissance and Reformation|year = 2012|volume = 35|issue = 2|pages = 182–184}}</ref>
In 2018 and 2019 Terjanian arranged a series of live events where hip hop dancers from New York City dance collective It's Showtime NYC—founded and sponsored by the South Bronx located non-profit "Dancing in the Streets"—performed in replica armor in the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Arms and Armor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Nir |first1=Sarah Maslin |date=November 2, 2018 |title=Subway Break Dancers, Clad in Armor, Go Medieval at the Met Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/subway-dancers-metropolitan-museum-art.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A22 |volume=168 |issue=58134}}</ref>
Terjanian succeeded Matthew Teitelbaum as director of the MFA Boston, assuming the position in July 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Derrick Bryson |date=April 12, 2025 |title=New Director Chose for a Boston Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/arts/design/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-pierre-terjanian.html |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=The New York Times |page=C6 |language=en-US |volume=174 |issue=60487 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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