Peter Doroshenko has been named as the new executive director of the Dallas Contemporary, replacing founding director Joan Davidow, who stepped down in 2009. Doroshenko is remembered in Texas for his stint as curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston from 1991-95, and has recently been director of the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine after a peripatetic career directing the BALTIC in Gateshead England, SMAK in Ghent, and the Institue for Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.