Richard Koshalek, former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, has been named to lead the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, The Washington Post reports.

“This is the perfect time and place in Washington” given the Obama administration’s more expansive view of the role of arts and culture, said Mr. Koshalek, who will take up his new post in April. He becomes the second new head of a Smithsonian art gallery hired this month. Johnnetta Cole, the former president of Spelman College, was named to head the National Museum of African Art.

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