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We reported in June that curator Jeffrey Grove, the High Museum’s modern and contemporary art curator, was leaving for the Dallas Museum of Art. Now we learn that another High alum, in a manner of speaking, is heading there, too.

That would be Louvre curator Olivier Meslay, who honcho’d LouvreAtlanta on the Paris side until he was asked to direct the development of Louvre Lens, a satellite in northern France.

Meslay is an expert in British, Spanish, and American Art –hardly the Louvre’s priorities. In fact, according to a database he developed, there are only 5,000 works from his areas of expertise in all of France. The DMA owns nearly 4,000 works including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Quantity doesn’t trump quality, of course, but it does make for more to do.