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Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025
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Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jul 17, 2025 • No Comments
CULTURE TYPE reports on new appointments of Black curators and arts leaders to gauge institutional representation, with an emphasis on art museums. Museum leaders, curators, and educators shape the management and intellectual direction of institutions, determine the art visitors see and the programming they experience and, by extension, whether audiences of color feel welcome and...
Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here's What Happened in January 2025
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Culture Type: The Month in Black Art, Here’s What Happened in January 2025

by Victoria L. Valentine on Feb 1, 2025 • No Comments
In January, artist and gallery founder Alonzo Davis died, Made in L.A. artists and USA Fellows were announced, Christina Kimeze and Martha Jackson Jarvis joined new galleries, Africa Center welcomed a new leader, discovery of rare William H. Dorsey painting was reported, and more   MARIO JOYCE, “Fragmented Memory,” 2024 (soil, vintage collage, oil paint,...
Alisa Chiles Appointed Decorative Arts Curator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Bringing Particular Expertise in the Areas of Art Nouveau and Art Deco
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Alisa Chiles Appointed Decorative Arts Curator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Bringing Particular Expertise in the Areas of Art Nouveau and Art Deco

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jan 30, 2025 • No Comments
Alisa Chiles is the new Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present at the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts. | Photo by Sandra Sellars, © 2024 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts   THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (VMFA) in Richmond, Va., has built a prized collection of...

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Moving On Up: 24 Museum Curators and Art Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in First Half of 2025

Culture Type | The Month in Black Art, Here’s What Happened in June 2025

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