{"id":485121,"date":"2026-05-14T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485121\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:39:15","slug":"art-movements-michelle-millar-fisher-heads-to-cooper-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/485121\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Movements: Michelle Millar Fisher Heads to Cooper Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York museum hires a new chief curator, Getty grants $1.8M for Black visual art archives, and an artist\u2019s cheeky plea on the High Line.<\/p>\n


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Art Movements,<\/a>\u00a0published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today\u2019s chaotic art world.<\/p>\n

Smithsonian Design Museum Gets New Chief Curator <\/p>\n

Michelle Millar Fisher, until recently the curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been named chief curator at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan. Beyond these hallowed halls, Fisher is known for her contributions to long-taboo conversations around wages and compensation in the art world. You might remember her 2019 Art + Museum Transparency<\/a> initiative, which she co-founded while at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to expose the industry’s drastically underpaid positions, or her committed work on design and motherhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDesign includes systems and environments, and to function well such ecosystems require trust, care, and transparency,\u201d Fisher told Hyperallergic.\u00a0\u201cI’ve always tried to center\u00a0this ethos in the way I\u00a0contribute to teams that I work within, no matter my role. The same will be true at Cooper Hewitt\u00a0\u2014 and I get the sense that approach is not only warmly welcomed but already practiced.”<\/p>\n

Fisher will succeed Matilda McQuaid, who will be retiring this spring after 24 years at the museum.<\/p>\n

Getty Awards $1.8M for Black Visual Arts Archives\"\"Lois Mailou Jones in her studio. (photo Marc Vaux Studio, courtesy AFRO American Newspapers Archives\/Afro Charities)<\/p>\n

The Getty awarded $1.8 million in grants to eight institutions through its Black Visual Arts Archive initiative, which provides funding to process historical records related to Black art to increase public visibility and access. The institutions include the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. Since its launch in 2022, the initiative has awarded more than $4.5 million in grants to more than 20 museums, libraries, and universities nationwide \u2014\u00a0bringing the public closer to works like the above photograph of Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones<\/a> with a sweet little studio assistant on her shoulder.<\/p>\n

What Else Happened? \"\"Coco Fusco (photo courtesy the artist) and Jeffrey Gibson (photo Brian Barlow, courtesy the artist)<\/p>\n