Appointments & departures

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Neil MacGregor announces last acquisitions before retiring from the British Museum

Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection

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Benjamin Genocchio, editor-in-chief of Artnet News, appointed executive director of Armory Show

A change in date for the New York fair might be on the cards under new directorship

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

Meet the new guard: Nicholas Cullinan to bring contemporary flair to London’s National Portrait Gallery

The former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to merge best practices from US and UK museums

Meet the new guard: How the Uffizi’s first foreign director plans to modernise the museum

Eike Schmidt has big plans for Italy's most-visited museum, from high-tech ticketing software to new tax breaks

Over 35s not allowed: Moscow Biennale for Young Art turns to emerging curators

Curator Nadim Samman will choose participating artists through a “transparent” selection procedure

Musée d’Orsay chief curator trades Paris for Philly to take up post at Barnes Foundation

The institution has named Sylvie Patry as its new chief curator and deputy director for collections and exhibitions

New home, new blood: Whitney appoints young curators for 2017 biennial

Thirty-somethings Christopher Y Lew and Mia Locks will lead a curatorial team that looks beyond the New York scene and institutional shows

Julia Peyton-Jones to step down from Serpentine Galleries in 2016

During 25 years at the helm she transformed pavilion in London park into venue for international art and architecture

Nottingham Contemporary gets a new director

Sam Thorne takes the reins after joining Tate St Ives only last year

London's Art16 fair names new director

Nathan Clements-Gillespie appointed following former head Kate Bryan's surprise exit after just ten months

British Museum trustees look to Dresden to find new director

German-born Hartwig Fischer’s formal appointment expected by British Prime Minister

Artist to lead France's most prestigious art school after summer of discontent

Culture minister's appointment of Jean-Marc Bustamante follows controversial removal of leading curator ‎at Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Italy appoints 20 new museum directors

Major institutions including the Uffizi will be led by foreigners for the first time in country’s history

Azeri non-profit Yarat gets a new artistic director

Bjorn Geldhof will continue to run programmes at Kiev’s Pinchuk Art Centre until the end of the year

Tate Britain gets a new director

The appointment of Alex Farquharson, director of Nottingham Contemporary, is welcomed by artists and critics

Beleaguered Barcelona museum gets a new director

Macba contemporary art space appoints Ferran Barenblit after censorship row

Art Basel hires New York's Armory Show head in bid to grow Americas network

Noah Horowitz, who starts new job in August, will run Art Basel Miami Beach

UBS names art writer and advisor to oversee corporate art collection

UBS names art writer and advisor to oversee corporate art collection

High Line co-founder to lead World Monuments Fund

Joshua David will replace long-time president Bonnie Burnham in November

As a generation of directors reaches retirement, fresh faces prepare to take over US museums

The competition to find the right director grows as US museum boards look beyond the usual suspects