Current director of Marseille museums will take up coveted post under newly appointed Pompidou president Laurent Le Bon on 1 October

Appointments follow accusations of “systemic racism” in hiring and programming at the museum

The Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Belgium has responded to outcry over decision to make Bernard Blistène a co-director alongside Kasia Redzisz

Ex-politician, who presided over austerity cuts to culture, takes up the position on 4 October

Min Jung Kim, who now leads the New Britain Museum of American Art, will succeed 22-year veteran Brent Benjamin

The experienced curator and leader comes from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, where she grew attendance by 400%

It is still not clear how quickly the lower levels of staff, which were hardest hit by pandemic job losses, will recover

As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan will head back as director after serving just a year at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

Museum chief is named "interim" director while President Macron decides if he should continue as head of the Paris institution

Former leader of Aspen Art Museum says she was beguiled by the California institution’s history and new building by Morphosis

Appointment of MCA, Chicago curator is seen as a step toward more inclusiveness after accusations of institutional racism

Alyssa Nitchun hopes to advance New York museum’s role as a queer sanctuary and “provocateur”

She is one of a small few Black partners at white-owned galleries in the US

Director assumes the mantle after an expansion and long coronavirus shutdown

Michal Raz-Russo, a photography curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, will oversee new grants, fellowships, exhibitions and publications

Stéphane Aquin is taking over after Nathalie Bondil’s controversial dismissal

Stéphane Aquin faces the challenge of restoring stability after Nathalie Bondil’s disputed removal

Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III

Culture minister Dario Franceschini reverses trend for appointing foreign leaders for its leading institutions

Appointment follows an agreement with the Massachusetts attorney general to embrace diversity and adopt an anti-harassment policy

Newly appointed executive director sees potential for a wealth of new initiatives

Conservative MP Chris Grayling has been named a trustee of the museum

"Museums have always been controversial. Who should be allowed in? And on what terms?" asks the celebrated classicist

Politically minded figure left helm of Queens Museum amid tensions with its board

The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan

Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week

The incoming director was headhunted for museum posts in Europe and the US but steered clear of the UK "for obvious reasons"

He will be overseeing the Italian city's art biennial as well as film, dance, theatre and music festivals

But Vladimir Medinsky, who has been replaced by Olga Lyubimova, will 'not be left without work' in culture, the Russian President says