Michie named MFA decorative arts curator

Thomas Michie, curator of decorative arts and design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2005, has been named senior curator of decorative arts and sculpture in the department of the Art of Europe at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the museum recently announced. He is expected to begin work in Boston in March. The Worcester native was previously curator of decorative arts at the RISD Museum in Providence.

Michie will fill the position previously held by Tracey Albainy, who died in December 2007.