The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Manila has appointed art historian, critic, and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. chief curator of its Contemporary Art Museum. Quijon arrives at the institution from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has spent the past two years as the inaugural Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives fellow for Southeast and East Asia. In his new role, Quijon will be in charge of one of the Philippines’ largest contemporary art collections, spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. The contemporary art museum is contained within Tanghalang Pambansa, CCP’s main building. “The goal is to strengthen the place of the CCP in national and regional conversations around contemporary art.”