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The museum’s new deputy director will oversee several departments that support exhibitions and collection care.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has appointed Jennifer Thompson deputy director of collections and exhibitions. The museum says she will oversee registration, installations and packing, exhibition planning, and photography.
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Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump asking to repurchase his 2015 painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, which the State Department removed from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo in August. Officials had branded the work 'woke' during a broader purge of embassy art.
Source date ·Image: ArtskUnion workers at the Brooklyn Museum and the American Folk Art Museum have reached tentative contract agreements, averting threatened strikes. Members of UAW Local 2110 were scheduled to vote on the deals starting September 29.
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Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez and Chip Thomas have won 2026 MacArthur Fellowships, each receiving $800,000 with no strings attached. The 'genius grants' honor exceptional creativity across disciplines.
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