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The Headlines
THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR.  Miami’s  Rubell Museum   has tapped   Caitlin Berry  to be the director of its forthcoming branch in Washington, D.C., the  Art Newspaper  reports. Berry has led the  Cody Gallery  at  Marymount University  in Arlington, Virginia, and will be taking the reins of a 32,000-square-foot space in a former school that is is slated to open near the end of October. Over in Cincinnati, the  Taft Museum of Art   has hired   Rebekah “Becky” Beaulieu  to be its next president and CEO, per the  Cincinnati Business Courier . Beaulieu is coming from the  Florence Griswold Museum  in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where she is currently director. And art adviser  Sheri L. Pasquarella , a cofounder of the  New Art Dealers Alliance ,  has been named  executive director of the  Church , the arts center in Sag Harbor, New York, created by artists  April Gornik  and  Eric Fischl ,  Art & Architecture Quarterly  reports.
ARTIST UPDATES.   Salman Toor  got the profile treatment from  Calvin Tomkins  in the  New Yorker , in a story that includes guest appearances from  Rachel Feinstein  and  John Currin  (who has “started to look a bit grizzled, according to Tomkins). The one-namer  Badiucao , whose work critiques the  Chinese Communist Party , was featured on  60 Minutes .  Pipilotti Rist  , with an exhibition on tap at  Tai Kwun  in Hong Kong, was featured in the  South China Morning Post .  Tiona Nekkia McClodden  has a doubleheader of exhibitions in New York, at the  Shed  and  52 Walker , and is in  Cultured . And  José Parlá , who was in an induced-coma for three months after contracting Covid-19 in early 2021, is in the  New York Times , timed to his new show at the  Library Street Collective  in Detroit. “It’s a miracle that I’m here talking to you,” Parlá told the paper.
The Digest
A rare incense table from the late Ming dynasty went for more than three times its high estimate at  Poly Auction  in Beijing, selling for the equivalent of about $6.2 million.  [The Value]
The late  Claude  and  François- Xavier Lalanne  are having a market moment, with  Christie’s  and  Sotheby’s  readying one auction each of their work, sourced their daughters  Marie  and  Dorothée Lalanne , respectively.  [Penta]
The inaugural Paris edition of  Design Miami  has been nixed after police officials denied organizers a permit to stage the fair in the Place de la Concorde, citing security concerns about that public space. The event had been slated to run in late October alongside  Art Basel ’s  Paris+  fair.  [Archinect  and  Artnet News]
Amid Black Lives Matter protests, the  National Museum Cardiff  in Wales removed from view a portrait of  Thomas Picton , a British military officer notorious for his brutal rule as Trinidad’s governor around 1800. Now it is back on view, in a packing crate, with newly commissioned art and educational materials.  [The Guardian]
As part of a new round of action, Russia sanctioned the U.K. arts nonprofit  Calvert 22 , which has focused on culture in Russia and the former Soviet region. The move may restrict people involved with it from entering the country. The group’s  Calvert Journal , which ceased publishing when Russia invaded Ukraine, has condemned the war.  [ArtReview]
The Kicker
POSTER CHILD.  In the  Los Angeles Times , columnist  Carolina Miranda  has  a rollicking Q&A  with the guerrilla poster artist  Robbie Conal , whose recent work has attacked the  Supreme Court  for overturning  Roe v. Wade . Artists  Leon   Golub  and  Nancy Spero  “were my art mom and dad,” said Conal, who shared a great story about a fistfight breaking out at a lecture by Golub that he organized. Miranda asked: What makes him undertake a postering campaign? “I have to get really pissed off—which is easy,” he said. “There’s so many bad guys and so little time. You know those thermometer things at state fairs where you hit the thing and it goes up? I have one of those inside my body.”  [LAT]