Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation names new director

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Bilbao's Guggenheim. File Photo: EFE

After a worldwide search, the foundation's board of trustees on Tuesday unanimously appointed 59-year-old Richard Armstrong to run the foundation and its flagship museum in Manhattan.

The announcement comes about seven months after Thomas Krens resigned. Armstrong will provide leadership and management for the other Guggenheim institutions.

He assumes his new role on Nov. 4. Armstrong has been the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh since 1996.