Nasher chief heads to Palm Springs

Steven Nash, director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas since 2001, has been appointed executive director of the Palm Springs Art Museum.

A veteran curator and administrator who has organized dozens of exhibitions and has been second in command at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Nash will assume his new position in April. He will succeed retiring director Janice Lyle, who has led the Palm Springs museum for 12 years.

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-- Suzanne Muchnic