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April 23, 2026 — 3 min read

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (photo Alex Paul, courtesy PEM)

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Names New Director

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 threatening funding for the Smithsonian Institution.…