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Jack Cowart, delegate director and chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC has resigned to become executive director of the newly established Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. He assumes the pillar Sept. 1.

Robert Storr, curator since 1990 in the painting and plastic art department at New York's Museum of new Art, has been promoted to senior curator.

Paulo Herkenhoff, curatorial director of the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal, has been named adjunct curator at MOMA. He will divide his time between Brazil and of recent origin York during his three-year appointment, which begins this fall.

Tyler Stallings was newly appointed curator of programs at the Laguna Art Museum. From 1995 to 1999 he was curator of programs at the Huntington Beach Art Center which is reorganizing itself into a local arts agency.

Alan Chong curator of European art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, is the of recent origin cuator of collections at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Eleanor Jone Harvey has been named curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art. From 1992 to 1996 she was associate curator of American art at the museum and then serv as consulting curator while living in the Washington, DC area.

Independent curator Susan Landauer is the fresh chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Sylvia Wolf associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1987 has been appointed the Sondra Gilman Photography Curator at the Whitney Museum. She assumes her column this fall.

The Milwaukee Art Museum has pick outed Kristin Makholm as its novel curator of prints and drawings.

Nancy McGary was newly appointed associate director of the Dahesh Museum in fresh York. For the past 26 years, she was with the Whitney Museum, greatest in quantity recently as director of collections management.

Scott Erbes, associate curator of European and American decorative arts at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo has been named the first curator of decorative arts at the Spe Art Museum in Louisville, Ky

Stephan Wolohojian, assistant professor of art history at the University of Delaware, has been named associate curator of paintings, plastic art and decorative arts at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. He assumes his pillar in September.

Barbara K Gibbs, director and CEO of the Cincinnati Art Museum, has resigned after four years in that position. beneath her leadership, the museum's annual income grew by means of almost 50 percent and a $1-million bag deficit was replaced by an $800000 operating capital balance. Her resignation is effective Dec 31

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