MARFA, Tex.—Marianne Stockebrand, the director of the Chinati Foundation since 1993, has announced that she will retire. Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd founded the museum after disagreements with the Dia Art Foundation over the financing of projects at the former U.S. Army base that is now the home of the institution. The center features permanent installations of work by artists such as Carl Andre, John Wesley, Roni Horn, and Judd himself. The foundation’s board has announced that it has begun looking for a replacement for Stockebrand.

NEW YORK—The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) announced that it has hired Karen E. Carolan. She previously worked as the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s art appraisal division and served as chairwoman of the IRS’s appraisals services department. Carol Vogel, writing in the New York Times, interprets the move as an attempt by the ADAA to bolster dealers’ appraisal business, which has long been the domain of auction houses.

RACINE, Wis.—The Racine Art Museum has named Lena Vigna its new curator of exhibitions. She joins the museum from the Miami University Art Museum, which is located in Oxford, Ohio. Vigna earned her BFA and MA in art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She has previous experience in Wisconsin, though, having have held the position of chief curator of exhibitions and department head at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisc., from 2001 to 2008.

ISTANBUL, Turkey— CCA Wattis Institute director Jens Hoffmann and Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosahave been appointed co-curators of 2011 Istanbul Biennial. The twocurators will announce the conceptual framework for the show in the fall of 2010. In addition to his involvement in the Biennial, Pedrosais also curating a show at the Jumex Collection that opens in April and the special "Sur"section of April's Zona Maco fair in Mexico City.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—It was announced this week that Hope Alswang will be the director and chief executive officer of the Norton Museum of Art, reports ArtDaily. Roger Ward, the Norton Museum’s chief curator and curator of European art has been named the deputy director. Alswang will start her new job on April 15th. She has worked at the Norton Museum for the past four years. Before joining the museum, she was the president and chief executive officer of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, executive director of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, and director of the New York State Council on the Arts Museum Program. She will succeed Christina Orr-Cahall, who left the Norton Museum in 2009.

Farewells

MENLO PARK, Calif.—Anita Ventura Mozley, the Stanford University Museum of Artsfirst photography curator who had a far-reaching career throughout theart world, has died of natural causes. She was 81. Mozley began hercareer in the 1950s designing exhibition announcements and posters forthe estimable Leo Castelli Gallery and worked for Arts Magazinefor nearly a decade as a writer and editor. At Stanford’s museum, whereshe worked as a registrar, she specialized in stop–motion work of Eadweard Muybridgeand was named photography curator in 1971. Her exhibition, “EadweardMuybridge: the Stanford Years, 1872–1882,” culled in large part fromphotographs commissioned by Leland Stanford, the tycoon who founded the university, traveled widely, appearing in many museums.