LOS ANGELES—Jeremy Strick has stepped down as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, the museum has officially announced. MOCA was recently thrown into financial crisis, allegedly in large part because of Strick's lack of budgeting over the past nine years as director. He has, however, boosted the museum's reputation enormously by expanding its collection and raising the standard of the exhibition program. Before joining MOCA in 1999, Strick served as a senior curator at the Art Institute of Chicago and held curatorial posts at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. MOCA also announced that Charles Young, chancellor emeritus of UCLA, has been brought on as the museum's first chief executive officer.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced that Toronto gallerist Stephen Bulger will serve as the organization's next president, succeeding Boston dealer Robert Klein. Bulger has been a member of AIPAD for 10 years and became first vice president in 2003. He opened Stephen Bulger Gallery in 1995 and is also a co-founder of Contact, Toronto's annual photography festival. He will begin his two-year term on January 1, 2009, along with new officers Catherine Edelman, who will serve as first vice president; Deborah Bell, second vice president; Jo Tartt, secretary; and Kraige Block, treasurer. Additionally, David Barenholtz, Henry Feldstein, George Hemphill, and Lisa Sette have been announced as new members of the AIPAD board of directors; they will also serve two-year terms beginning January 1.

NEW YORK—Katy Siegel will be the next editor in chief of the College Art Association's quarterly Art Journal, Artforum reports. Siegel is a contributing editor for Artforum and an associate professor of art history at Hunter College. She begins her three-year editorship for Art Journal on July 1, 2009.