Appointments & departures

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

Invitations are in the mail: Anne Pasternak outlines her welcoming vision for Brooklyn

The newly appointed museum director plans to promote site-specific and politically engaged projects

‘If you’re looking for me, you’ll probably find me in the galleries’

Matthew Teitelbaum—who starts his new job as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in August—on what it takes to run an encyclopaedic museum today

Anne Pasternak to lead the Brooklyn Museum

The longtime leader of the public arts non-profit Creative Time will succeed outgoing director Arnold Lehman

Edward Vaizey to continue as UK’s culture minister

He will work with newly appointed culture secretary John Whittingdale

Taking over in Bloomsbury will be no easy task

British Museum seeks Neil MacGregor’s successor: scholar, diplomat and virtuoso fundraiser required