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The Orange County Museum of Art on Thursday named a new curator for

its contemporary art collection.

Irene Hoffman, who is now curator of exhibits at the Cranbrook Art

Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will start at the museum in

mid-October.

At the Cranbrook, Hoffman was responsible for handling the museum’s

contemporary art exhibits that were part of the museum’s permanent

collection.

Hoffman was born in New York. She was an arts history major at

Washington University and received her masters degree at the School of

the Art Institute in Chicago.

Hoffman will work with chief curator Elizabeth Armstrong and curator

Sarah Vure.

The museum is at 850 San Clemente Drive.