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A cause for optimism? Within two weeks of taking over as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Alan Borg has simplified its complex committee system seen as distancing the director from the curators and constipating the decision-making process. The central management team has been reduced from ten to five, and one layer of management has been removed from between the Assistant Director responsible for the collections, and the curators. A senior curator, to be chosen by themselves, will also join the director's Executive Council. Previously the curators had no direct presence on any management committee.
Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper as 'V&A's new director cuts through committee structure'