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Curator Named: The National Gallery of Art has named Mark Rosenthal, a modernist known for the exceptional breadth of his interests, as curator of 20th-Century art. Rosenthal is one of four international curators who launched the revamped building and program at New York’s Guggenheim museum last fall. The appointment is the third key staff position filled by new National Gallery director Earl A. (Rusty) Powell III, former director of the L.A. County Museum of Art. In October, he named Edgar Peters Bowron, a former director of Harvard University’s art museums, as senior curator of paintings. Last week, Powell appointed Philip Conisbee, LACMA’s curator of European painting and sculpture, as curator of French paintings.