London gallery taps Rugoff

Ralph Rugoff, director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, has been named director of the Hayward Gallery at the South Bank Centre in London.

Known for organizing unorthodox group exhibitions and writing provocative essays on contemporary art, Rugoff recently won a $100,000 award from the Penny McCall Foundation for his work. He will leave the Bay Area art school at the end of the spring semester to lead one of London’s most important contemporary art institutions.