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The Brooklyn Museum announced this evening that it has named Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director of Creative Time, as its next director. The appointment completely upends the well-established career path to the directorship of a major museum, and makes Ms. Pasternak, who has virtually no museum experience, one of the few women helming a top museum in the U.S.

Current director Arnold Lehman had previously announced he will retire, after 17 years, next month.

Just months after Tom Finkelpearl left the Queens Museum to become New York City’s cultural affairs commissioner, the museum has selected a new president and executive director.

Laura Raicovich comes to the Queens Museum from Creative Time — which commissions and presents public art projects — where she has served as the director of global initiatives since 2012.

Kara Walker’s sugar-covered sphinx drew more than 130,000 viewers during its two-month run at the Domino sugar factory, with an average attendance of 5,000 a day on the weekends it was open, according to Creative Time, the public-art organization that commissioned the work.

Attendance surged to 10,000 a day on Saturday and Sunday, the last two days that the artwork, titled “A Subtlety,” was on display.