NewsCensorship
Wolfgang Tillmans and Tania Bruguera pledge support for censored Serralves Museum director
João Ribas has stepped down following censorship row around Robert Mapplethorpe show
NewsAppointments & 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”
NewsArt market
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?
NewsDocumenta
Documenta to name new artistic director by early 2019
Quinquennial appoints eight-member search committee for curator of 2022 edition
NewsAppointments & departures
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
NewsAppointments & departures
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
NewsMuseums
Okwui Enwezor steps down as director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst
Enwezor cites ill health as reason for departure
NewsMuseums
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
NewsAppointments & departures
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
NewsAppointments & departures
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
BlogIn the frame
Prince’s Paisley Park is looking for archivist, carnivores need not apply
NewsMuseums
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
NewsAppointments & departures
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
NewsPhotography
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"
NewsArt fairs
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
News
Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director
Scholar says the library founded by Aby Warburg “badly needs some profile raising”
News
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
NewsMuseums
Italy’s five suspended museum directors return to work
But top administrative court postpones final decision on the case until October
NewsAppointments & departures
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
NewsArt market
Matt Carey-Williams quits Phillips for Blain Southern
Move marks first major departure from auction house under Edward Dolman
NewsArt trade
Paul Schimmel leaves Hauser & Wirth
The former curator will no longer oversee the Los Angeles mega-gallery
NewsMuseums
Italian Renaissance specialist Miguel Falomir chosen to head up Prado
Unanimous vote by selection committee still needs approval from trustees and Spanish government
NewsPublic art
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
CommentMuseums
Museums have a duty to be political
Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them
Jillian Steinhauer