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Joanna Robotham and Colm Peare have been appointed to curatorial roles at the museum.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced two appointments in its modern and contemporary art department. Joanna Robotham will be curator of contemporary art, while Colm Peare will be assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, the museum says.
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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.
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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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