Appointments & departures

Top Italian museum director faces trial over gym visits

The director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has been suspended without pay for leaving the office

Tatenews

Tate drops ticket prices for young people and seeks trustee to represent 16-25s

New appointee should be “a cultural entrepreneur and digital native”

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

Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez’s contract extended for three more years

Paris museum chief must focus on partnerships with Asia and sustained attendance, culture minister says

Hartmut Dorgerloh nominated to head Berlin’s Humboldt Forum

If appointed, Dorgerloh, who currently manages the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, will replace the three founding directors

Politicscomment

Museums have a duty to be political

Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them

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

Controversial new director plans to turn Rome museum into art ‘asylum’

Critics objected to selection of Giorgio de Finis for role at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma without an open recruitment process

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"

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