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Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam M. Levine on Six of the Museum’s Most Important 2025 Acquisitions
The Toledo Museum of Art has a somewhat atypical history, in terms of encyclopedic museums of its ilk. “The museum,” director Adam M. Levine explains, “was founded in 1901 with money and not a collection. The most interesting feature of our acquisitions is that they are almost all funded from the endowment rather than as read more
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Philippines-Based Ayala Foundation Names Reuben Keehan as Artistic Director for Kontempo Arts Center
The Ayala Foundation, the social development arm of the Phillippines largest conglomerate, announced Wednesday that it has named Reuben Keehan as the incoming artistic director for Kontempo, a new contemporary art space scheduled to open in Manila. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasat, founder of WHY Architecture and architect of the new Rockefeller Wing at the Met, read more
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Art is Better Together: A Letter from Our Editorial Director
Dear readers, I recently picked up Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam’s bestselling book about the collapse of community in the U.S. At a whopping 581 pages, this veritable doorstop is a trove of data and insight into our increasingly isolated world. First published in 2000, before the internet exponentially diverted our attention from the physical world, read more
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UK Government Spends Big on Arts Sector, Creative Time Appoints Jean Cooney As Executive Director: Morning Links for January 22, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines UK ART INJECTION. London-based national museums must do more to serve audiences across the UK, culture secretary Lisa Nandy said on Wednesday as she announced a £1.5 billion funding package for the arts, described as the biggest reset for the sector in a read more
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Creative Time Appoints Jean Cooney As Executive Director
Creative Time, a New York-based arts nonprofit known for commissioning and presenting large-scale public art projects, has appointed Jean Cooney as its executive director, the organization announced Thursday. Cooney has served as vice president of arts and culture for the Times Square Alliance, a nonprofit that promotes the major tourist destination, and as director of read more
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'Rental Family' Director Hikari Finding Peace on Set Amid the Bustle of Tokyo
On Location peels back the curtain on some of your favorite films, television shows, and more. This time, we take a look at Rental Family. We speak to Japanese director Hikari about her film Rental Family, which follows the story of Phillip, an American actor living in Tokyo (Brendan Fraser) who is recruited by an read more
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New Philadelphia Art Museum Director Says Board Doesn’t Need ‘Radical Restructuring’
In one of his first extensive interviews as the new director of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Daniel H. Weiss told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his institution’s board doesn’t require major changes after the abrupt firing of his predecessor last year. Amid a controversial rebranding, Sasha Suda was terminated in November for what an email described read more
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Yasha Grobman Appointed Director of the Israel Museum
Yasha Grobmanhas been appointed director general of theIsrael Museumin Jerusalem, according toHaaretz, ending a prolonged leadership crisis at one of Israel’s most prominent cultural institutions. Grobman will succeedSuzanne Landau, who stepped down in early January after serving as interim director since September 2023. The appointment follows what the museum described as a lengthy and discreet read more
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Timo Kappeller Joins Pace Gallery as Senior Director in New York
Timo Kappellerhas joined Pace Gallery as a senior director in New York, where he will focus on sales and artist relationships, the gallery announced this week. He begins the role on January 20. Kappeller arrives at Pace after three years as artistic director of The Campus, the collaborative exhibition space in upstate New York operated read more
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Guy Cogeval, former director of Paris’s Musée 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 Le Monde on November 17. An iconoclastic and at times controversial figure in the museum world, Cogeval was an impassioned scholar of 19th-century art read more
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