LONDON—Christie's Guy Bennett will resign from the auction house next week, the New York Times reports. Bennett has been at Christie's for 12 years, working most recently as co-head of the Impressionist and modern art department worldwide, with Thomas Seydoux. He joined the department in 2001. He is leaving to take some time off, he said. Seydoux will assume full responsibility for the department.

TORONTO—The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art says curator Camilla Singh has left the museum, Artforum reports. Singh, also an independent curator and artist, was involved in a number of big exhibitions at the museum, such as "Demons Stole My Soul: Rock 'n Roll Drums in Contemporary Art" and "Unholy Alliance: Art + Fashion Meet Again." She represented MOCCA at major international events and oversaw a number of installations of the museum's traveling exhibitions. Toronto weekly magazine Now named her curator of the year in 2008.

DALLAS—The Louvre's Olivier Meslay is heading to Texas to lead the Dallas Museum of Art's departments of European and American art, the Dallas museum announced. Meslay has worked at the Louvre for 16 years, serving as curator of British, American, and Spanish painting from 1993 to 2006; then as curator of the "Louvre Atlanta" project; and lastly as chief curator of Louvre Lens, a satellite of the French museum under development in northern France. He also led the creation of two public databases that catalogue American and British art in French museums. In Dalls Meslay will serve as senior curator of European and American art and as an endowed curator of European art. He starts in August.

HAMBURG, Germany—Dirk Luckow will be the new director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Artforum reports. He will replace Robert Fleck, who is moving to Bonn to run the Bundeskunsthalle. Luckow, currently the director of the Kiel Kunsthalle, begins in Hamburg in the fall.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale has announced the creation of a new position, associate dean for the arts in Yale College, and has appointed Susan Cahan to fill it, Yale Daily News reports. Cahan is currently the associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Missouri-St. Louis; she also is a professor in contemporary art there. She previously taught at Bard College and the University of California, Los Angeles; has overseen educational programs at the New Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and was senior curator of Eileen and Peter Norton's private art collection. Cahan begins at Yale on August 24.

NEW YORK—The Drawing Center, the only museum in the country to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings, has named four new members to its board of directors, reports Artforum. The new members are architect Steven Holl, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Director Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, artist Pat Steir, and collector and scholar Isabel Stainow Wilcox.

Farewells
NEW YORK—Artist and longtime teacher at New York's Art Students League Frank Herbert Mason died June 16, Artforum reports. Mason began teaching at the league in 1951. Among his most notable works are eight large paintings of the life of St. Anthony of Padua, which are permanently installed in the Church of San Giovanni de Malta, in Venice, alongside a Giovanni Bellini painting. After the completion of the cycle, the Order of Malta granted him the Cross of Merit, Prime Classe, making him the first painter to receive that honor since Caravaggio. Mason's 1972 work Resurrection of Christ is on view at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York. He was also a co-founder of the group ArtWatch International, with art historian James Beck.

PONCHATOULA, La.—Folk artist William Hemmerling died June 15 at age 66 after a two-year battle with cancer, the Associated Press reports via the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hemmerling's paintings and portraits of African-American life, which he often created on recycled, found materials, attracted a large following in the U.S. A self-taught artist, he was chosen to create the poster for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2005 and honored by the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Northshore Regional Endowment for the Arts, and the African American Heritage Museum & Black Veteran Archives in Aurora, Ill.