Donasia Tillery

6 days ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation have teamed up to offer a total of $800,000 to cultural programs that lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in February after Trump administration cuts forced the agency to eliminate its Challenge America grants. The grants had historically gone to small and midsize cultural programs in underserved regions, including rural areas and communities comprising vulnerable populations.

6 days ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has eliminated twenty-nine roles, or about 7.5 percent of its roughly 430 staff, citing financial difficulties. Twenty full-time and nine part-time positions were cut, a number of which were said to be front-facing or customer-service roles. Twenty-six of those who lost their jobs are members of the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 29, which is currently involved in contract negotiations with the museum.

1 week ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

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1 week ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has announced Defne Ayas as its new director, beginning in September. Ayas, who formerly helmed Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly), is currently curator-at-large at New York’s visual performing arts’ biennial, Performa. She will succeed Charles Esche, who has led the institution for two decades.

1 week ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

Mara Manus, who since September 2023 has served as the inaugural CEO of Brooklyn, New York’s Pioneer Works, has left the role, Artnews reports. Before arriving at the arts and culture nonprofit, Manus had spent seven years as executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts, where she secured $100 million in funding and supported some three thousand organizations.