New York's El Museo del Barrio announced today that Jorge Daniel Veneciano has been hired as the museum's new director, a position that has been vacant since Margarita Aguilar left in February…
Evans replaces Jason Busch, who was chief curator and head curator of decorative arts and design from 2006 until this fall.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., has hired Cathleen Chaffee as curator, effective January 2014. She replaces Heather Pesanti, who left last year to become senior curator at The Contem…
Olafur Eliasson has won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 40th Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts for 2014. The award includes a $100,000 cash prize, artist residency, public lecture and p…
Omaskêko Cree artist Duane Linklater is this year's Sobey Art Award winner and will receive about $48,000. The award, created in 2002 by the Stellarton, Nova Scotia-based Sobey Art Foundation, is gi…
New York nonprofit the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art (SI) has appointed Simon Castets as its new director and curator. He succeeds Gianni Jetzer, director of SI for seven years, and will take u…
Renata Lucas and Coco Fusco have each won a 2013 Absolut Art Award for, respectively, art work and art writing. Both will receive approximately $27,000 in cash, as well as a budget for an upcoming pro…
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced today that Anne Wilkes Tucker, the founding curator of the department of photography, will retire from her position in June 2015. The museum has appointed…
Dennis Szakacs will resign from his position as director and CEO of the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Newport Beach, Calif., in December. His resignation comes after a decade of service. Szaka…
Sotheby's extends its global reach with a new private sales branch, S|2, opening in London next month. The inaugural show, "Joseph Beuys Revealed" (Oct. 10-Nov. 15) will feature the German artist's ea…