Dominic Molon, the chief curator of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis since 2010, has been hired by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, in Providence, to serve as its curator of contemporary art. His official title will be Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art. Read More
Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum announced today that it has hired Connie Butler to serve as its chief curator, taking the place of Douglas Fogle, who stepped down about a year ago. Ms. Butler was already bound for L.A. to curate the museum’s 2014 “Made in L.A.” biennial with Michael Ned Holte. She had served as chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art since 2006. Read More
Lisa Freiman, a senior curator and chair of the contemporary art department at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, has been tapped to become the first director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va. The future home of the ICA, designed by Steven Holl Architects, is under construction and Read More
The Los Angeles–based artist Sam Falls is now represented by Metro Pictures gallery in New York. The gallery confirmed the news on the phone and has added him to their artist roster on their website. Metro Pictures does not yet have a solo show planned, but Mr. Falls will be included in a group show there in June. He will be jointly-represented by American Contemporary in New York. Read More
Some big news regarding the art world of central Germany comes to us today via Artforum’s International News Digest, which translates the tidings from the German of Monopol.
First up, Susanne Pfeffer, who served as director of Belrin’s Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art from 2007 to 2012, will be the artistic director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in Kassel, Germany. Read More
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has tapped Anne-Marie Eze to become its associate curator of the collection. Ms. Eze has been with the museum since 2010, and served as its first Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. The news comes to us via Artforum. Read More
David Platzker, the founder and president of the project space and bookstore Specific Object, has been appointed a curator in the department of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art. Read More
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the artistic director of Documenta 13, which took place in Kassel, Germany (and Alexandria, Egypt; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Banff, Canada) last year, has been tapped by Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. to serve as a visiting professor of theory and practice. Her official title: Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor. Ms. Christov-Bakargiev was named the most powerful person in the art world in Art Review‘s 2012 Power 100 rankings, which the school notes in its release. Read More
Independent curator and art dealer Amy Smith-Stewart has been hired as curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in Ridgefield, Conn. Artforum has the news, and quotes the museum’s executive director, Alyson Baker, saying, “Amy shares our respect for the museum and its legacy as an institution known for pioneering exhibitions and public programs.” Read More
Manuela Paz, the former director of VIP relations for the Armory Show, has just been hired by the New Art Dealers Alliance, where she will serve as the group’s membership director. Read More
