Connie Butler is leaving her post as the chief curator of drawings at MoMA in New York to become chief curator at the Hammer Museum.

After Louvre staff walked out on the job a month ago to protest the gangs of pickpocketers that roam the museum, the government has announced Paris will step up police presence at the Louvre and other tourist attractions.

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Dominic Willsdon

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Dominic Willsdon is the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has taught at the Royal College of Art, California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a former editor of the Journal of Visual Culture and co-editor of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics. In 2010, he was the inaugural Kress Fellow in Museum Education at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.