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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art

Laura Phipps, former Whitney curator, becomes director of the Gochman Family Collection as it opens a permanent Hudson River Valley exhibition space for contemporary Indigenous art.
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fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortes

The art world lost several influential figures this week, including the inventor of the iconic Hand Chair, a Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of Colombia's national museum.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Liliana Angulo Cortes, director of Bogota's Museo Nacional de Colombia, has died, aged 51

Liliana Angulo Cortés, the first Afro-Colombian director of Bogotá's Museo Nacional de Colombia, transformed the institution's approach to historical reparation and decolonial narratives before her death at 51.
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fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

Joshua O'Driscoll Named Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan - Medievalists.net

Dr. Joshua O'Driscoll appointed as Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum, overseeing one of the world's most significant illuminated manuscript collections.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

What's a Gen X to Do?

Beleaguered Louvre president Laurence des Cars quits after a historic heist under her watch. The next morning, a new leader is announced. It's Christophe Leribault from the Palace of Versailles, a true museum animal who ran a few during his career.
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fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Koyo Kouoh's Final Show

Each artist functions almost as a musical key signature of their own, which together 'refuse the orchestral bombast and goose-step military marches and come alive in the quiet tones, the lower frequencies.' That description comes from Rasha Salti, one of the exhibition advisors who spoke at yesterday's announcement of the roster. It's an apt invitation to think of curation as an act of composition, with Kouoh's vision singing at every turn.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 weeks ago

New leaders of France's Louvre and Orsay museums announced

Léribault's first mission, according to Macron, will be the "appeasement" of a museum which has been badly hurt by the theft of France's crown jewels on 19 October and a string of scandals since then. He will need all his diplomatic talents to face the unions, who have led an unprecedented series of strikes, asking a rise in wages.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Longtime director leaving Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose

Marilee Jennings is stepping down after 39 years as executive director of the Children's Discovery Museum to move to Colorado to be near her grandchildren.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Art Movements: The Brooklyn Museum's New Top Contemporary Art Curator

Brooklyn Museum Fills Its Top Contemporary Curator Spot Robert Wiesenberger was named senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, a post that has been vacant since the departure of Eugenie Tsai in 2023. He comes from the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he was curator of contemporary projects, and was previously a curatorial fellow at the Harvard Art Museums.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Lisa Funderburke Tapped to Lead Newark Museum of Art

Lisa Funderburke will become president and CEO of the Newark Museum of Art after nine years leading the Artist Communities Alliance.
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fromMission Local
2 months ago

MoAD caps 20th anniversary celebration

The Museum of the African Diaspora shifted from historical/anthropological displays to centering contemporary Black artists, expanding programming and exhibitions under new leadership.
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fromARTnews.com
3 months ago

Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris's Musee d'Orsay, has died at 70

Guy Cogeval, who was director of Paris's Musée d'Orsay from 2008 to 2017, died on November 13 at the age of 70. His death, after a long illness, was reported by on November 17. An iconoclastic, and at times controversial, figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art whose specialty was the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters active in the late 1800s.
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fromHyperallergic
3 months ago

Art Movements: MoMA PS1 Reveals Greater New York Curators

Major art institutions and galleries face leadership changes, trustee resignations, and closures, reflecting instability across U.S. museum and gallery sectors.
fromARTnews.com
3 months ago

Getty Trust Adds Glenn Lowry and Lionel Sauvage to Board of Trustees

“It's an honor and delight to welcome Glenn and Lionel to Getty's Board of Trustees. Both have a lifelong commitment to the arts, and deep and varied experience. Their contributions will benefit Getty in countless ways," Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of Getty, said in a statement. "Having known and seen each of them in action over several years, I look forward to what they will bring to Getty as we work to transform our visitor experience and expand our global reach.”
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fromARTnews.com
3 months ago

The Art World's 'Joe Rogan,' ONX Expands, and More: Industry Moves for November 13, 2025

Institutions and galleries announced leadership hires, new exhibition spaces, artist representations, and a sponsored craft prize, signaling strategic growth and market activity in 2026.
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fromARTnews.com
3 months ago

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Names New President and CEO

Allison Blais will become president and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in January 2026, succeeding Jeffrey N. Brown.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months ago

Philadelphia Art Museum's director ousted following divisive rebrand

At this time, Louis Marchesano, deputy director of curatorial affairs and conservation, will lead day-to-day operations at the museum while we identify an interim director and chief executive. As this is an internal matter, we are limited in what we can say. The board of trustees is focused on fulfilling the museum's mission as we enter our 150th year. We are not providing further comment at this time.
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fromArtforum
4 months ago

X Zhu-Nowell

X ZHU-NOWELL was appointed executive director and chief curator of Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in January 2025, after serving as its artistic director since 2023. From 2014 to 2021, they were an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where they commissioned "Wu Tsang: Anthem," 2021, and contributed to exhibitions such as "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World," 2017-18.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months ago

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver names new director

Kiendl served most recently as the chief executive and executive director at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG). He was selected from more than 100 candidates in an international search and was the unanimous choice by the committee, according to MCA Denver board chair Steve Cohen. "Denver has a growing, thriving, diverse population and it's very important that the museum serve all the constituents in our local community," Cohen says.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 months ago

San Jose Museum of Art's new executive director wants to take institution to another level

Jeremiah Matthew Davis will lead the San Jose Museum of Art to expand public engagement, large-scale installations, and globally influenced, region-focused programming.
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fromKqed
6 months ago

San Jose Museum of Art Announces New Executive Director | KQED

Jeremiah Matthew Davis becomes director and CEO of the San José Museum of Art on Oct. 1, 2025, succeeding Sayre Batton.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 months ago

From Outliers to Kosher Pop Art, a new look at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education * Oregon ArtsWatch

Rebekah Sobel, new executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, will present Steve Marcus's Judaica-themed psychedelic skateboard exhibit in Portland.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 months ago

Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum: We can't give things away, but there is nothing preventing us from sharing the collection'

Nicholas Cullinan directs the British Museum, modernizing programming and fundraising while navigating controversies over contested artifacts and broadening the museum's cultural perspective.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 months ago

Brian Ferriso to leave Portland Art Museum * Oregon ArtsWatch

Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum since 2006, is resigning to become director of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. Oregon Public Broadcasting broke the story Friday morning, Aug. 20, citing a press release from the Dallas museum. Ferriso, who has spent the past several years guiding the Portland museum's massive, $111 million redesign and addition, will leave after the unveiling of the completed project on Nov. 20, and will take the reins in Dallas on Dec. 1, 2025.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 months ago

Glenn Lowry, director of the MoMA: I am unabashedly clear that public institutions serve the public'

Glenn Lowry transformed MoMA over three decades, navigating challenges and expanding its influence in contemporary art.
fromTheartnewspaper
8 months ago

Orange County Museum of Art in talks to merge with University of California, Irvine

UCI's exploration of a merger with OCMA could enhance the cultural landscape of Orange County by deepening engagement with the arts and supporting new generations.
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fromTheartnewspaper
10 months ago

Art Institute of Chicago's director on leave amid investigation into airplane incident

James Rondeau takes leave amid an investigation into an incident on a flight from Chicago to Munich.
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