BERLIN—Thomas Eller will be the first director of the new Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin gallery, Artnet reports. Eller has long been the editor of Artnet's German magazine and recently became the director of Artnet's Berlin office. He is also an artist known for his three-dimensional photo installations and won the Käthe Kollwitz Prize in 2006 from Cologne's Käthe Kollwitz Museum. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin opens on October 29 with a show by Berlin-based video artist Candice Breitz.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Mary L. Levkoff will be the new curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery of Art. Levkoff is currently curator of European sculpture and classical antiquities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she began working in 1989 as an assistant curator. She is the organizing curator and primary author for "Hearst the Collector," an international loan exhibition running November 9 – February 1, 2009 at LACMA. At the National Gallery, she replaces Nicholas Penny, who left in February to direct the National Gallery in London.

AMSTERDAM—Bart Rutten has been named the next curator of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam's visual arts collection, Artforum reports. Rutten, a specialist in video art, worked previously at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch and the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam. He is a guest lecturer at a number of educational institutions, including Amsterdam's Sandberg Institute, Eindhoven's Design Academy, and the University of Utrecht. He begins at the Stedelijk Amsterdam in December.

SEOUL—Arts Council Korea has chosen Eungie Joo as the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at next year's Venice Biennale, Artforum reports. Joo is the first non-Korean national appointed to the position. The director and curator of public programs at New York's New Museum since 2007, Joo created the institution's Museum as Hub global partnership, a curatorial-education hybrid project with five international partners. Before working at the New Museum, Joo was the founding director and curator of REDCAT gallery in Los Angeles for four years.

BELLEVUE, Wash.—The Bellevue Arts Museum has announced that Mark Crawford will serve as interim executive director, beginning on October 20, the Seattle Times reports. Crawford served most recently as CEO of the Talaris Foundation, which supports parents and caregivers. He succeeds former executive director Michael Monroe, who stepped down last month to become director of curatorial affairs at the museum.

OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has named Glen Gentele its new president and CEO, the Oklahoma City Business News reports. Gentele is currently the director of the open-air Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis and a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He assumes the position in Oklahoma City on January 1, 2009.

OSLO—The Fotogalleriet foundation has appointed Leif Magne Tangen director from 2009 through 2013, Artforum reports. Tangen is currently gallery director at Pierogi Liepzig and will assume the position at Fotogalleriet — the only Norwegian institution devoted to camera-based art — on January 1. He has worked as gallery manager at Fotogalleriet, as a critic, and as an editorial board member of Billedkunst, and in he 2006 established, with photographer Michael Moser, the nonprofit institution D21 Kunstraum Leipzig. At the Fotogalleriet, Tangen succeeds Ida Kierulf, who has accepted the newly created position of curator and project coordinator at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Mary Miller, the chair of Yale University's art history department, has been named Yale College's next dean, the first woman to hold the position. The Yale Daily News reports that Miller will take up the position, which was vacated by Peter Salovey when he became provost at the beginning of October, on December 1. Miller joined the Yale faculty in 1981, serving as the director of undergraduate studies, chair of the art history department, and chair of the Latin American studies department since then. She became the master of Saybrook College, one of the 12 residential colleges that make up Yale College, the undergraduate school of Yale University, in 1999. Miller is currently preparing for a series of lectures at the National Gallery of Art that she will deliver in spring 2010.