{"id":396086,"date":"2026-04-24T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:15:20","slug":"meet-the-smithsonian-american-art-museums-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396086\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Smithsonian American Art Museum\u2019s New Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plus: Turner Prize shortlist announced, Print Center New York’s 2026 New Voices cohort, and a surprising acquisition backstory.<\/p>\n


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\"\"Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (photo Alex Paul, courtesy PEM)<\/p>\n

Art Movements,<\/a>\u00a0published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today\u2019s chaotic art world.<\/p>\n

Smithsonian\u00a0American Art Museum Names New Director<\/p>\n

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, will lead the Washington, DC, institution at a crucial juncture. In the Trump administration’s push to sanitize the telling of United States history, the museum’s exhibition on race and sculpture was specifically targeted in the president’s notorious executive order<\/a> threatening funding for the Smithsonian Institution. Last fall, artists withdrew from a symposium<\/a> linked to the exhibition, citing concerns that leaders caved to Trump pressure by making the event private. <\/p>\n

Roscoe Hartigan’s appointment to helm the American Art Museum is also a return: She began her career at the institution in the 1970s and became its chief curator in 2003 before moving on to the Peabody Essex. In her early days at the Smithsonian, Roscoe Hartigan was a founding curator of the Joseph Cornell Study Center, later penning the first biography of the enigmatic artist \u2014 whose work exemplifies the unusual, unappreciated brand of modern art that she excels at elucidating. <\/p>\n

Roscoe Hartigan will succeed Acting Director Jane Carpenter-Rock, who will stay on at the museum as deputy director for museum content and outreach.<\/p>\n

Turner Prize Shortlist Announced\"\"A visitor looks at a Marguerite Humeau installation at the Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne de Paris in 2019. (photo Francois Guillot\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It’s that time of the year again. Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije,\u00a0Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku have been shortlisted for the 2026 Turner Prize. All four artists will show their work in a group exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art at Teesside University, opening this fall. Finalists receive a \u00a310,000 ($13k) award; the winner of the top \u00a325,000 ($33k) prize will be announced in December.<\/p>\n

What Else Happened?Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has been awarded the city of Kassel’s 2026 Arnold Bode Prize.The Portland-based artist residency Indigo Arts Alliance has appointed Mia Bogyo as deputy\u00a0director. Tim Dooley, Whitney Hess, Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, and Michael Derek Thomas were named board members.Four Bay Area artists working in dance, film, public space, and theater \u2014 Sarah Crowell, Cheryl Dunye, Cece Carpio, and Danny Duncan \u2014 have been selected for the Rainin Arts Fellowship, administered by United States Artists.Print Center New York announced its fourth\u00a0annual New Voices cohort:\u00a0Noah Breuer, Zoran Dobric, Johannah Herr, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, Michael Menchaca, Melih Meric, Anette Millington,\u00a0and\u00a0Amy Yoes.Wildcard\"\"Lindsay Adams,\u00a0“Kind of Blue (1959)” (2024) (photo Sloane Prince, courtesy Johns Hopkins University)<\/p>\n

It’s not every day that a high-profile museum director helps finance a university’s latest acquisition. Johns Hopkins University announced this week that it has purchased\u00a0Lindsay Adams\u2019s massive diptych \u201cKind of Blue (1959)\u201d (2024), an abstract meditation on Miles Davis\u2019s eponymous album, with funds gifted by Dan Weiss, Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO and director. (Weiss, a Hopkins alumnus, chaired the university’s Art History department and later became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; he is now a professor of humanities and an advisor to the provost for the arts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community Plus: Turner Prize shortlist announced, Print Center New York’s 2026 New Voices cohort, and a surprising acquisition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-396086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}