Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the institution at the end of March
For the third time in six years, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art is looking for a new director. Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of this March, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian confirmed. While the institution declined to discuss personnel matters, sources have told The Art Newspaper that Blankenberg was pushed to resign.
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