July 15 | Samson Young to represent Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale

Young was the 2015 recipient of the BMW Art Journey prize, reuniting sound, performance and visual arts within his practice. Conversely to the two previous editions of the Biennale, the pavilion will not be commissioned by Doryun Chong — Executive Director and chief curator at the M+ — who will this year act as a consultant. Ying Kwok will undertake the curatorship. More details via South China Morning Post.

Following nine months without a director the Dallas Museum of Art is to welcome the former director of Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Arte, Agustín Arteaga, from September to hear the institution. Arteaga has previously directed Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce and founded the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires (MALBA). The Dallas Museum of Art has a collection of 23,000 works, covering 5,000 of art history and hosts over 650,000 visitors per year. Dallas News reports.

Luce Lebart, currently director of collections and conservator at the Société Francaise de Photographie in Paris, has been named director of the Canadian Institute of Photography. Inaugurated this spring within the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The Canadian Institute of Photography’s collection contains 50,000 photographs and 146,00 negatives. More information via Art Forum.

Christian Marclay, famed for his video work The Clock, has been awarded the 2016 Contemporary Vision Award by the San Francisco MoMA. In 2013 the artist exhibited a solo show at the museum. Marclay lives between London and New York and will be awarded the prize on October 17 during a dinner at the MoMA. He follows in the footsteps of Annie Leibovitz, the first laureate of the prize. More details on SF Gate.