Appointments & departures

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

Minister hails revamped Egyptian Museum as shining example

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed

Tate Modern director is heading to Berlin to run prestigious theatre

Chris Dercon will stay in London until summer 2017 as extension approaches completion

Colin Bailey named head of the Morgan Library and Museum

The Renoir scholar comes to the museum after two years in San Francisco

British Museum’s Neil MacGregor will retire on a high

“Extraordinary contribution” praised as director sets sights on Mumbai and Berlin

Pinault appoints curator for first Palazzo Grassi show..

The French billionaire chooses Alison Gingeras from the Guggenheim

Egyptian archaeology is in turmoil after the fall of Zahi Hawass

Revolving door in Cairo as nation’s antiquities left leaderless

Suspicions and speculations as Jeffrey Deitch is appointed as MoCA's director

Why is it that a move from the commercial sector to the non-profit is seen as scandalous?

Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down

Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign

Conveyor belt of directors continues as the world wonders, what is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?

Since it opened last November, four out of five senior curators and directors have left and one has apparently been redeployed