A Smithsonian museum director departs for the Guggenheim

The director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is leaving today after 12 years to take over the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Melissa Chiu, now 54, arrived at a Hirshhorn in turmoil in 2014 after a decade as director of the Asia Society Museum in New York....

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