The Menil Collection in Houston has postponed a major expansion project that included a new Drawing Institute building, after Director Rebecca Rabinow shuffled construction schedules this week. “We’re in it for the long haul and have very exacting standards,” she says. “Better to take time and get it perfect than open too early.”
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Former Met Director Thomas Campbell has been awarded the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, which will see him embarking on eight months of research at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and at Windsor Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. Campbell’s research will investigate  “the related question of how we can use art and culture as a gateway to promote understanding in an ever-more connected but ever-more divided world,” according to a statement.
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Former Met Museum director Philippe de Montebello will become the new director at Acquavella Galleries, Art News reports. “I think it’s one of the great art galleries,” de Montebello said. “We have been talking over the last few years since I left the Met about how I could use some of my academic and other experience with the gallery.”
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