PASADENA, Calif.—The Art Center College of Design has found a replacement for its former president, Richard Koshalek, who left his post prematurely last year after students and alumni protested his plans and priorities for the school, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new president and CEO will be Lorne M. Buchman, the current leader of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco and the former president of California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) from 1994 to 1999. Buchman is also a principal in Buchman Associates, a consulting firm for nonprofits, and has been a faculty member and administrator at UC Berkeley. He begins at the Art Center College in October.

PARIS—The Musée du quai Branly, which showcases indigenous art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, has named Karim Mouttalib its new general director, Agence France-Presse reports via Artforum. Previous to the appointment, Mouttalib served as an adjunct delegated general director at the museum since early 2008. Additionally, he currently holds the position of a referendary counselor at the French Court of Auditors. Mouttalib will succeed Pierre Hanotaux, who has been chosen as the new cabinet director at the Ministry of Culture and Communication in France.

MIAMI—The Miami Art Museum announced the appointment of Elizabeth A. Marquardt as its new chief financial officer. Marquardt’s previous experience includes serving as chief financial officer at Ferrell Law in Miami and as senior director at Alvares & Marsal Taxand, LLC, in Coral Gables, Fla. At the museum she will be responsible for all of the finance and accounting functions. Marquardt takes up her post as the museum begins construction of its new Herzog & de Meuron–designed building in downtown Miami’s Museum Park, projected to open to the public in 2013.

Farewells
MUMBAI, India—Influential Indian painter Tyeb Mehta died on July 1 at the age of 84 after being admitted to a hospital in Mumbai with a chest infection last week, reports BBC News. He was a part of a group of Indian artists called the Progressive Artists Group, which was founded in Mumbai in 1947 and included such artists as S.H. Raza, M.F. Husain, S.K. Bakre, and Akbar Padamsee. Mehta's artwork contained bright colors and bold shapes, drawing influences from Western painters like Picasso, Matisse, and Kandinsky. In 2003 of one of his triptychs sold to a Japanese art collector at Christie's New York for $317,500, a record price for an Indian contemporary painting at the time. Mehta went on to top that with the 2008 sale of a painting at Christie's for $1,918,926.