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Brett Littman. Photo: Don Stahl. Courtesy MCA San Diego
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Brett Littman will be the next director of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the museum has announced. He was picked after a six-month search to succeed Kathryn Kanjo, who departed the museum in January to lead the newly merged UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art.

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Littman was formerly deputy director of MoMA PS1, executive director at the Drawing Center and director of the Noguchi Museum. He will assume his role in October.

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