Ayas replaces Charles Esche, who has been in post for two decades, taking the reins ahead of the museum’s 90th anniversary in 2026

Alex Rotter's promotion is the latest senior management shuffle at the auction house since Guillaume Cerutti stepped down

The longtime curator of arms and armour has served as the museum’s chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum’s director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions

Kiendl’s departure comes a few months after the gallery pulled the plug on an ambitious but costly building project it had already spent C$60m on

Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum

Gillman, who was previously the director of Auto Italia in London, will replace Zoé Whitley, who stepped down in 2024

Dominique Savelkoul, Tefaf’s new managing director, looks to steady the art foundation after a tough few years and set it on a new path for the future

George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure

The lawyer and auction house legal consultant succeeds Martin Wilson, who was named chief executive of Phillips last month

Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker

Martin Wilson, the chairman of the British Art Market Federation (Bamf), is joining as chief executive and will oversee global operations

The deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum says she is "humbled by the breadth of this responsibility"

Whitley’s five year tenure resulted in 15 exhibitions

Stephanie Stebich, who had led the institution since 2017, has been reassigned to a senior advisory role

Currently the director of the Paris Fashion Museum-Palais Galliera, she will take over from Juan Ignacio Vidarte in April 2025

The Asian art scholar spent much of his tenure overseeing the museum's redevelopment project, Sydney Modern, which doubled the institution’s exhibition capacity

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

Two years after her appointment, the star curator described her early exit from the Paris museum as “a relief”

Zoë Ryan, currently the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will take the helm at the Hammer in the new year

Lowry’s 30-year tenure at the museum included many milestones, from the merger that created MoMA PS1 to multiple renovations and expansions

Alessandro Giuli, who heads up Rome's Maxxi museum, replaces Gennaro Sangiuliano in the right-wing government role

The "Cultural Strike" follows the dismissal of the directors of the Slovak National Gallery and the Slovak National Theatre in early August

Dominique Savelkoul recently served as director of the Mu.Zee museum in Oostende, Belgium

The Colombian curator José Roca has curated several major international biennials and was previously the adjunct curator of Latin American art at Tate

Siddall will take up the role this autumn, becoming the first-ever woman to hold the position

Jacques Schuhmacher, who worked on several key restitution cases at the London museum, has taken up the role of executive director of provenance research

At least 360 professionals sign open letter in defence of Alexandra Kusá, who was sacked alongside the head of the national theatre

Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the Bronx Museum since 2020, will take on his new role in Florida in October