Appointments & departures

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

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”

Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

The former head of the Serpentine will take over as senior global director of the commercial gallery in September

Italy’s five suspended museum directors return to work

But top administrative court postpones final decision on the case until October

Raft of appointments mark ‘beginning of new era’ for Institute of Contemporary Arts

German artist Wolfgang Tillmans among those elected to the London institution’s council

Maria Balshaw starts as overall Tate director

Former Manchester director will focus on “event-driven” culture, such as performance

Matt Carey-Williams quits Phillips for Blain Southern

Move marks first major departure from auction house under Edward Dolman

Camden Arts Centre gets first new director in almost 30 years

British-born Martin Clark joins the London institution from Bergen Kunsthall

Curator Jarrett Gregory heads to the Hirshhorn

She joins Smithsonian museum’s growing curatorial team just after organising Armory Show Focus sector

Paul Schimmel leaves Hauser & Wirth

The former curator will no longer oversee the Los Angeles mega-gallery

Italian Renaissance specialist Miguel Falomir chosen to head up Prado

Unanimous vote by selection committee still needs approval from trustees and Spanish government

Creative Time appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose as senior curator

In an early interview, the Goldsmiths lecturer and independent curator hints at what she plans to achieve in New York

In her own words: Maria Balshaw, new director of Tate

Incoming director picks the art that impressed her the most in 2016

Politician and historian Tristram Hunt named V&A director

Labour MP makes surprise career change to leave Westminster for top job at South Kensington museum

Sarah McCrory named director of Goldsmiths' new contemporary art gallery

Turner Prize-winners Assemble are designing art school's space, due to open in 2018

Speculation grows that Tate’s next director will be Maria Balshaw

Will director of Manchester’s university and city art galleries be heading to London?

New York-based collector Ronald Lauder joins Getty board of trustees

The billionaire businessman is experienced in museum management, philanthropy and international affairs

Christie’s promotes Guillaume Cerutti to chief executive

While Sotheby’s hires Rauschenberg Foundation’s Christy MacLear to in-house advisory team

Philip Rylands steps down as director of Venice’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Long-time leader helped convert the collector’s palazzo on the Grand Canal into the city’s second most visited museum

Christie’s chairman Brett Gorvy leaves auction house to join forces with New York dealer Dominique Lévy

The head of postwar and contemporary art has presided over the category’s explosive growth

Gabi Ngcobo appointed curator of the Berlin Biennale

South African curator will lead the tenth edition of the experimental German event

Jenni Lomax to step down as director of Camden Arts Centre after 26 years

North London institution, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary, is "in good nick", she says

Chiara Parisi to step down after five years as arts director of Monnaie de Paris

She will be replaced by Camille Morineau, whose mission will be to present more French and female artists and expand the audience