Smithsonian’s Freer And Sackler Galleries Name New Director

“A Middle East historian and author who is president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York will be the next director of the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums. Chase F. Robinson will begin his tenure on Dec. 10 as the director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art … He succeeds Julian Raby, who retired in December after 15 years.”