Pittsburgh's Armstrong heralds new direction for museum
(NEWSER) - The Guggenheim Foundation has chosen Richard Armstrong, the head of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, as the museum's new director. He succeeds Thomas Krens, who established the Guggenheim as a global brand with branches in Europe and more planned in Asia and the Middle East. But Krens' commercialism and expansionist ambitions antagonized many in the art world, not to speak of donors, and the choice of Armstrong seems to herald a new direction. More»
