Appointments
French culture ministry names 39-year-old Xavier Rey director of Centre Pompidou’s national museum of modern art
Current director of Marseille museums will take up coveted post under newly appointed Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon on 1 October
After soul-searching, Guggenheim names a Black ‘culture and inclusion’ officer and a human resources chief
Appointments follow accusations of “systemic racism” in hiring and programming at the museum
Centre Pompidou in Paris names new president as Brussels branch backtracks over ‘sexist’ appointment
The Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Belgium has responded to outcry over decision to make Bernard Blistène a co-director alongside Kasia Redzisz
Appointment of former UK Chancellor George Osborne as new British Museum chairman draws criticism
Ex-politician, who presided over austerity cuts to culture, takes up the position on 4 October
Saint Louis Art Museum appoints its first woman director
Min Jung Kim, who now leads the New Britain Museum of American Art, will succeed 22-year veteran Brent Benjamin
Raphaela Platow to take over as director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky
The experienced curator and leader comes from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, where she grew attendance by 400%
Museum hiring rebounds? US institutions announce a string of appointments to leadership and curatorial positions
It is still not clear how quickly the lower levels of staff, which were hardest hit by pandemic job losses, will recover
National Gallery of Art recruits the first woman and person of colour to serve as its chief curator
As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”
Peabody Essex Museum enlists its former deputy director to assume the top post
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan will head back as director after serving just a year at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto
Jean-Luc Martinez stays in post as Louvre director—for now
Museum chief is named "interim" director while President Macron decides if he should continue as head of the Paris institution
Orange County Museum of Art names Heidi Zuckerman as director
Former leader of Aspen Art Museum says she was beguiled by the California institution’s history and new building by Morphosis
Guggenheim appoints Naomi Beckwith as deputy director and senior curator
Appointment of MCA, Chicago curator is seen as a step toward more inclusiveness after accusations of institutional racism
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art appoints former nonprofit executive as its new director
Alyssa Nitchun hopes to advance New York museum’s role as a queer sanctuary and “provocateur”
Courtney Willis Blair becomes partner at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
She is one of a small few Black partners at white-owned galleries in the US
Norton Museum of Art appoints Ghislain d’Humières, former director at the Speed, as its new leader
Director assumes the mantle after an expansion and long coronavirus shutdown
Gordon Parks Foundation hires programme director to expand artist and social justice initiatives
Michal Raz-Russo, a photography curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, will oversee new grants, fellowships, exhibitions and publications
'We are not a suburb of Paris': incoming director of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts champions a North American identity
Stéphane Aquin is taking over after Nathalie Bondil’s controversial dismissal
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts appoints new director
Stéphane Aquin faces the challenge of restoring stability after Nathalie Bondil’s disputed removal
Poet and author to lead National Museum of African American History and Culture
Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III
Six women, one foreigner: Italy appoints 13 new museum and heritage directors
Culture minister Dario Franceschini reverses trend for appointing foreign leaders for its leading institutions
After 2019 racial incident, MFA Boston hires a senior director of belonging and inclusion
Appointment follows an agreement with the Massachusetts attorney general to embrace diversity and adopt an anti-harassment policy
Four years after closing museum, National Academy of Design envisages a New York exhibition space
Newly appointed executive director sees potential for a wealth of new initiatives
'As reassuring as Mr Bean'? London's National Portrait Gallery appointment attracts criticism
Conservative MP Chris Grayling has been named a trustee of the museum
Mary Beard wades into restitution debate in her first blog post as a new British Museum trustee
"Museums have always been controversial. Who should be allowed in? And on what terms?" asks the celebrated classicist
Laura Raicovich is named interim director of Leslie-Lohman Museum
Politically minded figure left helm of Queens Museum amid tensions with its board
Cabinet reshuffle: Oliver Dowden appointed new UK culture secretary
The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan
Wooing Dutch visitors and an impending birthday: the challenges facing Van Gogh Museum's new director
Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week
Van Gogh Museum's Emilie Gordenker ruled out UK jobs because of Brexit
The incoming director was headhunted for museum posts in Europe and the US but steered clear of the UK "for obvious reasons"
Film producer Roberto Cicutto replaces Paolo Baratta as Venice Biennale president
He will be overseeing the Italian city's art biennial as well as film, dance, theatre and music festivals
Russia's controversial culture minister ousted in Putin's government reshuffle
But Vladimir Medinsky, who has been replaced by Olga Lyubimova, will 'not be left without work' in culture, the Russian President says