Best Hire by a Museum

It’s been a rocky start for the still-fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver: During the last few years, the museum has had two permanent directors and an interim one. Now a third permanent director has been hired: Cydney Payton, who rescued Boulder’s Museum of Contemporary Art from obscurity during her glorious eight-year reign as its director. There’s no doubt that Payton will have MoCAD — which she plans to redub “MCA Denver” soon — up and running again in no time.