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The Noguchi Museum said the headscarves, a symbol of Palestinian identity, violated a dress code that recently banned ''political messages, slogans or symbols.'' Three employees of the Noguchi Museum were [...]

After years of standing by their sides, these guards find these pieces of art deeply meaningful. You might too. Early in the morning, on the verge of opening up, art [...]

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the chief executive of Forever Balboa Park, will start this summer, after Nancy Yao's withdrawal. Second time's the charm? A year after the Smithsonian American Women's History [...]

Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, who most recently served as president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, will assume the role in September. Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, who for the past [...]

Yasufumi Nakamori, a curator at the Tate, will be director of the New York museum showcasing Asian art, artifacts and culture. Yasufumi Nakamori, a senior curator of international art at [...]

Caitlin Murray will lead the museum, a West Texas landmark that is carrying out costly restorations to uphold the vision of its founder, the artist Donald Judd. The Chinati Foundation, [...]

Asma Naeem, raised in Baltimore, will lead the city's pre-eminent art museum as it faces unionization and equity efforts. The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Tuesday that Asma Naeem, its [...]

Jenny Moore is leaving the contemporary art museum established by Donald Judd, after nine years as the director and following the completion of the first part of its multiyear master [...]

Aaron De Groft was removed from his position days after the F.B.I. seized 25 works that had been shown in a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit and whose authenticity had been questioned. [...]

Meg Onli will join the Los Angeles museum as director and curator, co-leading with Cristina Pacheco. Onli's priority: spending time in Arlington Heights. Meg Onli will join the Underground Museum [...]

Currently the associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, she takes over in September from Tim Griffin as executive director and chief curator. The Kitchen, the nonprofit [...]

His departure comes in the wake of a job posting, since corrected, that described the museum's core audience as ''white,'' and amid criticism from a trustee, some staff and local [...]

Antwaun Sargent, a critic and author, plans to work with artists who are thinking about contemporary issues around identity, desire and representation. Gagosian, the global gallery known for ambitious exhibitions, [...]

Antwaun Sargent, a critic and author, plans to work with artists who are thinking about contemporary issues around identity, desire and representation. Gagosian, the global gallery known for ambitious exhibitions, [...]

The nonprofit executive Alyssa Nitchun will lead the museum after its last director, Gonzalo Casals, became the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City. The question of who should steer [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the adventurous cultural institution that's seen a surge in attendance in recent years, named Nora Burnett Abrams as its new director on Tuesday. Dr. [...]

By Jori Finkel LOS ANGELES -- For a change, a high-profile contemporary arts venue here has not gone to New York for its next leader. Instead, the board of the [...]

For the last six years, Kate Fowle has divided her time between Moscow, where she was until recently the chief curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and New [...]

LONDON -- The chief executive of the Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned on Tuesday after a newspaper investigation revealed she had connections to a cybersecurity firm whose technology has been [...]

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the most significant museum of modern art in the Netherlands, named the Dutch curator Rein Wolfs as its new director on Friday. Mr. Wolfs, 58, is [...]

Thomas P. Campbell, the former director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who resigned under pressure last year, has been hired to lead the Fine Arts Museums [...]

The Drawing Center, a small, non-collecting museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, has announced that its new executive director will be the longtime New York curator Laura Hoptman. Ms. Hoptman, 56, [...]

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is known especially for its extraordinary collection of French Impressionism and 19th century paintings, Renaissance masterpieces, and decorative arts. So, why did the [...]

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is known especially for its extraordinary collection of French Impressionism and 19th century paintings, Renaissance masterpieces, and decorative arts. So, why did the [...]

Fast on the heels of Cheim & Read gallery's announcement that it plans to close in Chelsea and transition to private practice uptown, Adam Sheffer, its longtime partner and sales [...]

Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian curator and critic whose exhibitions laid the groundwork for a new global view of contemporary art, stepped down Monday from his position as artistic director of [...]

The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City has appointed a new director: Brett Littman, the current director of the Drawing Center. He will take over the job in May, succeeding [...]

The American Folk Art Museum announced today that its executive director, Anne-Imelda Radice, has informed its board of trustees of her intent to retire early in 2018. Dr. Radice, 69, [...]

AMSTERDAM -- When Beatrix Ruf abruptly stepped down as artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam three weeks ago under a cloud of suspicion, the art world reacted with shock [...]

The fledging art institution Philadelphia Contemporary may not yet have a home, but it now has an artistic director: Nato Thompson, currently the artistic director Creative Time. Mr. Thompson, who [...]

Impermanence, according to Buddhists, is one of the three characteristics of reality. This was borne out on a small scale Thursday when the Rubin Museum of Art announced that they [...]

Philippe de Montebello, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, doesn't exactly need another job. He is chairman of the Hispanic Society of America; a professor at New [...]

In a striking leadership reorganization, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday announced that Daniel H. Weiss, its president and chief operating officer, will lead and run the museum, filling [...]

Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure on Tuesday as the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after months of growing concerns among staff members and some [...]

LONDON -- Maria Balshaw has been named as the new director of the Tate group of art museums in Britain, assuming the top position at one of the most important [...]

LONDON -- After months of speculation that Maria Balshaw, who runs the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, was the front-runner to become the next director of Tate, the organization that oversees [...]

Having come aboard nearly four years ago at the New York Public Library to help that institution navigate its controversial expansion -- which was ultimately scrapped in the wake of [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Just months after becoming general director of the Museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands, Wim Pijbes announced on Tuesday that he would step down from the post and return [...]

The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, a leading contemporary arts exhibition space on the Mall, has a new director from New York's alternative arts scene. Stefan Kalmar, who assumes [...]

Following the abrupt resignation last week of its top trustees, the Bronx Museum of the Arts on Wednesday announced two interim appointments -- Joseph Mizzi as interim chairman and Joan [...]

Just two years after becoming the executive director of El Museo del Barrio, Jorge Daniel Veneciano announced on Friday that he would step down at the end of the month [...]

Damien Hirst has a knack for arresting attention, as he did by encrusting the platinum cast of a human skull in 2007, by pulling off a $200 million all-Hirst auction [...]

In a surprising move, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has gone beyond the United States for its next director, hiring Max Hollein away from the Stdel Museum in [...]

If, on the night of Feb. 20, Lynne Ambrosini had emptied a champagne flute a few times and then triumphantly thrown it into a fire, anyone who knows her would [...]

The Harvard Art Museums, which have been without a director since last July, announced Wednesday that they had chosen Martha Tedeschi, a longtime curator and administrator at the Art Institute [...]

The Brooklyn Museum's new director, Anne Pasternak -- who has been rapidly shaking up its galleries and programming in the four months since she took over -- announced on Thursday [...]