Belinda Tate Leaves Indianapolis Museum of Art After Three Years

After three years, Belinda Tate is leaving the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The executive director exits with a record of elevating women and artists of color in shows like "The Message is the Medium." She also staged "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Kasseem 'Swizz Beatz' Dean and Alicia Keys." Mirror Indy first reported the move.

"I am proud of the role I have played in advancing the Indianapolis Museum of Art and helping position it for its next chapter," Tate said in a museum statement.

Why is Glasgow's arts community "in uproar"?

Two fires gutted the Glasgow School of Art. The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) announced its closing earlier this year. Now Trongate 103, housing seven arts organizations, faces a 400 percent rent increase. Glasgow's cultural spine has taken year-long damage, per The Art Newspaper.

Locals have organized a "Save Our CCA" campaign and a second push aimed at Trongate 103. "To lose the CCA is to lose part of that core, that heart, from which everything else can be sustained," artist Mark Leckey told The Art Newspaper. He invoked Glasgow's former standing as "an ideal for artists with an ecology and economy that worked."

The CCA's archive is up for sale. A Save Our CCA spokesperson called the prospect "sickening." The campaigns' odds remain long.

What else is moving?

• Arlington arch suit: Virginia's Arlington County elected board sued over President Trump's planned triumphal arch, alleging federal review was skipped.
• Vienna exodus: Four dealers told Monopol Magazine that galleries are fleeing for lack of "healthy back-up support" (institutional and collector demand beyond the primary market).
• Dalí bronze lifted: Thieves disabled cameras and alarms before taking Salvador Dalí's "Livre de l'Apocalypse" book cover from a French private museum.
• Microsoft's Michelangelus: The tech firm released a free font modeled on Michelangelo's handwriting.
• Christie's "Bulgari Pink": A 24-carat emerald-cut diamond heads to Geneva on November 10 with an $18 million estimate.

What's the kicker?

"Caps for sale! 50 cents a cap!" lives in every childhood library. Esphyr Slobodkina wrote and illustrated the 1938 picture book. Her abstract paintings, fabric collages, and found-object sculptures don't register half as loudly in art-world circles.

Rosenberg & Co in New York stages "Esphyr Slobodkina: An Unbound Creativity," a survey meant to lift the artist out of that one-book shadow. "She didn't shy away from new development," gallery director Kadie Ross told The New York Times.

The Tate vacancy lands as US regional museums (mid-sized institutions outside the coastal art capitals) reset their leadership ranks. Glasgow's organizing push will test whether a city can defend its cultural core when the rent man comes calling.