UNDER NEW DIRECTOR, OMAHA MUSEUM AIMS HIGH

A year and a half into his tenure, J. Brooks Joyner, the director of Omaha’s Joslyn Museum, is strengthening the museum’s commitment to contemporary art. Joyner has hired New York–based writer and curator Klaus Kertess to advise on exhibitions and acquisitions and has struck a deal with collector Phillip G. Schrager, who has assembled one of the finest contemporary-art collections in the region, reports Alice Thorson in the Kansas City Star.