Appointments & departures
Castello di Rivoli Museum says director Christov-Bakargiev will leave at the end of 2023
The museum is seeking a new director to start in January 2024
French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale
The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished
MoMA PS1 hires Hammer Museum curator Connie Butler as its next director
Butler made a similar cross-country move in 2006, when she left the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for a job at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is looking for a new director—again
Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the institution at the end of March
Tate Modern announces new director as Oslo museum chief Karin Hindsbo
Pressing challenges include maintaining visitor numbers and developing the institution's climate response
Marina Loshak steps down as director of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum in latest high-level Russian departure
The well-respected director has been replaced by Elizaveta Likhacheva, the current head of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture
Moscow museum director removed after complaint against institution’s lack of ‘traditional Russian spiritual and moral values’
Zelfira Tregulova, who has headed the State Tretyakov Gallery since 2015, will be replaced by Elena Pronicheva, who has links to Vladimir Putin
Head of London's Royal College of Art, Paul Thompson, to step down in 2024
Vice-chancellor of the UK’s highest-rated arts college will leave after 15 years in the role
Former Musée Guimet chief Sophie Makariou to oversee cultural development of AlUla in Saudi Arabia
French government signed multi-billion dollar deal with Saudi regime in 2018
Adriano Pedrosa named curator of Venice Biennale 2024
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand artistic director is the first Latin American curator to take up the position
Tefaf appoints Bart Drenth as global managing director
The organisation's fourth leader in three years, he will oversee both Maastricht and New York events alongside chairman Hidde van Seggelen
Canada's National Gallery abruptly lays off four senior staff, including chief curator and Indigenous art curator
In an internal memo to staff, the museum's interim director wrote that the sudden changes were made "to better align the gallery’s leadership team with the organisation’s new strategic plan"
Mark Hallett appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London
He joins from Yale University's Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and will now oversee the next phase of the Courtauld's £57m redevelopment project
The Art Newspaper appoints Nick Sargent as chief executive
The Condé Nast business head brings with him more than two decades of experience as a media professional
Frances Morris to leave Tate Modern in April after seven years as director
London museum's first female chief, who was pivotal in diversifying the collection and programme, departs to pursue curatorial projects related to climate change and Modernism
Marc Spiegler steps down as Art Basel chief after 15 years—and is replaced by a familiar face
Noah Horowitz, formerly director Americas of the art fair brand, returns as chief executive following a brief stint at Sotheby's
Storm King Art Center appoints associate curator ahead of $45m capital project
Eric Booker was previously an assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem and has held roles at the Guggenheim and the Calder Foundation
The Photographers' Gallery in London appoints Shoair Mavlian as new director
A former intern will replace Brett Rogers as the new figurehead of the photography space, but will face immediate pressures concerning income, footfall and sponsorship
Chris Dercon quits French cultural body Rmn-GP for leadership role at Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain
Belgian curator, who once headed Tate Modern, recently backed decision to kick Fiac out of Grand Palais in Paris
Former Dallas Contemporary director Peter Doroshenko to take the helm of New York’s Ukrainian Museum
Doroshenko, a Chicagoan of Ukrainian heritage, was the founding president of the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv and was the commissioner of the country’s Venice Biennale pavilion three times
Whitney curator David Breslin appointed to lead Metropolitan Museum’s Modern and contemporary art department
Breslin, who co-curated the 2022 Whitney Biennial, will oversee the Met’s major expansion project
Michelle Donelan named new UK culture secretary
The former minister for universities has been promoted under the new prime minister, Liz Truss
UK culture secretary Nadine Dorries resigns amid party leadership change
Dorries, the 10th culture secretary in 12 years, was closely aligned with former prime minister Boris Johnson
In surprise move, contemporary art specialist Christine Macel takes the reins at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Previously chief curator at Centre Pompidou since 2000, she also organised the French Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale
An historic appointment: Lynette L. Allston is the first Indigenous person to serve as board president of a major US museum
Allston had previously advised the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in devising its land acknowledgement agreement
Metropolitan Museum director Max Hollein to take on dual role of director and chief executive
Hollein, who will add the role to his title after Daniel H. Weiss resigns next year, was the “clear choice”, according to the Met’s board of trustees
Former dealer Caitlin Berry named inaugural director of the Rubell Museum's Washington, DC outpost
Berry was previously the director of the Cody Gallery at Marymount University and the director of Hemphill Fine Arts
Alistair Hudson appointed head of Germany’s Zentrums für Kunst und Medien
Whitworth Art Gallery chief stays in post until end of 2022 following exhibition controversy last year
Documenta's director steps down over antisemitism scandal
Sabine Schormann's decision to resign as head of the Kassel exhibition was supported by a number of leading German politicians
Longtime Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong stepping down
Armstrong, who led the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for nearly 15 years filled with triumphs and turbulence, will leave in spring 2023