STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.—The Norman Rockwell Museum has named Charles Urquhart associate director for museum advancement, a position that he began on Sept. 9, ArtDaily reports. Urquhart, who has extensive fund-raising experience, will head up development at the museum. He comes most recently from Women in Need, a group that provides shelter to women and children, and Jeanne Sigler & Associates in New York, where he participated in the Interim Solutions program, holding senior positions during the transitional periods at two of Columbia University’s nonprofits. Urquhart joins the Norman Rockwell as it works toward a goal of raising $25 million to fund community programs and special initiatives at the museum.

JERSEY CITY, N.J.—The Jersey City Museum has announced that Laurene Buckley will succeed Marion Grzesiak as executive director, ArtDaily reports. Grzesiak left the museum in April. Buckley began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has since worked continuously in the field, at a number of museums, including the Queens Museum of Art, the Castellani Art Museum at Niagara University, and the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester. She also has experience as a teacher and a peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums. She assumes her post on October 1.

NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the appointment of four senior staff members, two of whom will take over their new posts immediately. Carrie Rebora Barratt, who has worked as a curator at the Met since 1984, has been named associate director for collections and administration; Keith Christiansen, an employee of the museum for over 30 years, will assume the title of John Pope-Hennessy chairman of European paintings. On October 26, the two will be joined by Sheila R. Canby and Peggy Fogelman. Canby, currently curator of Islamic art and antiquities at the British Museum in London, will become the Met’s Patti Cadby Birch curator, overseeing the museum’s Department of Islamic Art. Fogelman will join the Met as Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose chairman of education, exiting her post as director of education and interpretation at Massachusetts’s Peabody Essex Museum.

INDIANAPOLIS—J. Nicholas Cameron will step in as chief operating officer of the Indianapolis Museum of Art starting on January 4. Cameron comes to Indianapolis from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he most recently served as vice president for construction. He holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and Vanderbilt University, and held positions at the Met for 30 years.

ST. LOUIS—St. Louis Post-Dispatch art critic David Bonetti will retire from his post, effective immediately. Bonetti will leave not only the newspaper but the city itself to return to his native New England. In an unusual farewell to his St. Louis readers, Bonetti claimed he would return to his home state of Massachusetts for “the salt air, the good seafood, and people who care more about where you got your Ph.D. than where you went to high school.” He has not announced what's next for him professionally. The Dispatch, however, has announced that Bonetti will not be replaced.

CINCINNATTI—Deborah Emont Scott will join the Taft Museum of Art as its director and chief executive officer on November 9, reports the Cincinnatti Enquirer. Scott comes to the museum from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, where she served as chief curator, and before that, Sanders Sosland curator of 20th-century art. She holds degrees in art history from Rutgers University and Oberlin College, and has spent the better part of her career at the Nelson-Atkins.

SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Museum of Art has elected to appoint not one but four interim directors to oversee museum operations while it searches for a replacement for Derrick Cartwright, who will step down as director this week. According to San Diego’s Union-Tribune, the interim team will consist of the museum’s four deputy directors, Julia Marciari-Alexander, Julianne Markow, Katy McDonald, and Vasundhara Prabhu, all of whom were hired under Cartwright. The museum has tapped New York search firm Phillips Oppenheim to help find Cartwright’s permanent successor.