Appointments & departures
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave Royal Academy of Arts to become senior director of Blain Southern
Secretary and chief executive of the London museum says he wanted to go “at a time of obvious strength and success”
White Cube appoints Warhol expert Eric Shiner artistic director in New York
Is the London-based gallery growing its US team to open an exhibition space there?
Documenta to name new artistic director by early 2019
Quinquennial appoints eight-member search committee for curator of 2022 edition
Brexit reshuffle means Jeremy Wright is seventh UK culture secretary in eight years
Museum admission charges will be on the agenda of MP who cites “James Bond films and playing golf badly” as interests
IRL to VR: Daniel Birnbaum leaves Moderna Museet to head-up virtual reality gallery
Museum director due to take up new role at London's Acute Art early next year
Okwui Enwezor steps down as director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst
Enwezor cites ill health as reason for departure
Philippe Vergne to step down as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
The announcement that he and the board “mutually elected” not to renew his contract comes on the heels of the chief curator Helen Molesworth’s surprise departure
Zeitz Mocaa director Mark Coetzee embroiled in #MeToo scandal
Curators accuse the Cape Town museum director of inappropriate and abusive behaviour, according to local reports
Mark Coetzee suspended from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
An inquiry has been launched into the executive director and chief curator’s professional conduct
Road to the Met: how Max Hollein rose to become its next director
A gifted manager and fundraiser, he inherits a museum dogged by financial troubles and discontent
Top Italian museum director faces trial over gym visits
The director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has been suspended without pay for leaving the office
Tate drops ticket prices for young people and seeks trustee to represent 16-25s
New appointee should be “a cultural entrepreneur and digital native”
Max Hollein is the next director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
The current director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has both the experience needed to lead the encyclopaedic museum and “real integrity”, says the Met’s president Dan Weiss
Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez’s contract extended for three more years
Paris museum chief must focus on partnerships with Asia and sustained attendance, culture minister says
Hartmut Dorgerloh nominated to head Berlin’s Humboldt Forum
If appointed, Dorgerloh, who currently manages the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, will replace the three founding directors
Museums have a duty to be political
Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them
Helen Molesworth is out as LA MoCA's chief curator
The director Philippe Vergne reportedly fired her as the two clashed over the museum's programming
Controversial new director plans to turn Rome museum into art ‘asylum’
Critics objected to selection of Giorgio de Finis for role at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma without an open recruitment process
Tate's first photography curator Simon Baker named new director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Parisian photography centre's programme will show a "strong commitment to women and emerging artists"
Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda named co-curators of next Taipei Biennale
Exhibition opening in November will explore grassroots communities
Architectural historian appointed director of The Queen’s art collection
Tim Knox, currently director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, is a keen connoisseur of works of art
Ralph Rugoff named artistic director of the 2019 Venice Biennale
Director of London’s Hayward Gallery will organise 58th International Art Exhibition
Journalist and senior art consultant Alison Cole appointed editor of The Art Newspaper
Former editor of Art Quarterly joins the publication in February
Benjamin Genocchio removed as director of Armory Show after reports of harassment
The New York Times reports that multiple women who worked with him said he made sexual comments and touched them inappropriately
Rusty Powell, director of Washington’s National Gallery of Art, to retire in 2019
The museum’s fourth and longest-serving leader says his greatest achievements are building for the future
New chief executive joins The Art Newspaper
Julie Sherborn brings extensive experience of developing titles and brands in Asia
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum
German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution
India Art Fair gets new director for tenth edition
Jagdip Jagpal to take the helm from Neha Kirpal, who remains founder and co-owner
Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director
Scholar says the library founded by Aby Warburg “badly needs some profile raising”