Community Plus: Turner Prize shortlist announced, Print Center New York's 2026 New Voices cohort, and a surprising acquisition backstory. April 23, 2026 — 3 min read Lynda Roscoe Hartigan (photo Alex Paul, courtesy PEM) Art Movements,  published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world. Smithsonian American Art Museum Names New Director Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, will lead the Washington, DC, institution at a crucial juncture. In the Trump administration's push to sanitize the telling of United States history, the museum's exhibition on race and sculpture was specifically targeted in the president's notorious executive order threatening funding for the Smithsonian Institution. Last fall, artists withdrew from a symposium linked to the exhibition, citing concerns that leaders caved to Trump pressure by making the event private.…