Stephane Aquin Appointed Chief Curator Of Hirshhorn Museum

Stéphane Aquin, curator of contemporary art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art since 1998, has been named chief curator of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, effective early 2015. He will lead a department of five staff curators and one...

Steve McQueen Makes Statement On US Racial Tensions

The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of 12 Years A Slave, says he is “very, very sad, but not surprised” by recent racial tensions in the USA. The video artist was speaking at the European Film Awards in Latvia, where...

Art Fund Announces Judges For 2015 Museum Of The Year Award

The YBA Artist Michael Landy has been selected as a judge for this years £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Prize. The 2015 panel will be chaired by the Art Funds’ Stephen Deuchar, along with design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn; the books and arts editor of The...