Kathleen V. Jameson Appointed Director of Speed Museum, Returning to Louisville

Key facts

• Kathleen V. Jameson is the new director of the Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
• Jameson previously worked at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she established the first digital media program.
• She has held roles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
• Jameson is a scholar of American art and photography.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two works by Alison Rossiter from her series of assemblages of expired photographic papers.
• Alison Rossiter's "Semblance, Man Ray Tapestry (4)" (2026) was inspired by seeing Man Ray's original work at the Jewish Museum in 2009, according to Yossi Milo Gallery.
• The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm acquired "The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria" (1607), a previously unidentified altarpiece by Lavinia Fontana.
• The Art Gallery of Ontario acquired six works by Brian Groombridge, to be shown in a solo exhibition of his prints and sculptures from 1989–2021 opening September 12.