Redundancies
US museums blame falling visitor numbers for staff redundancies
Institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have let staff go
Uproar after series of high-profile sackings at Spanish museums
Regional governments accused of censorship and political interference after controversial axing of five museum directors in two months
Six key jobs culled at London’s Whitechapel Gallery—including three curatorial posts
New director defends overhaul in wake of rising energy costs and Arts Council funding cuts
With the threat of cuts, unions get militant in UK museums—and their membership is growing rapidly
Workers are increasingly turning to collective bargaining, industrial action and representation by trade unions
Damien Hirst laid off 63 people last autumn while claiming £15m in government Covid-19 loans
Job cuts came after major retrospective in Beijing was cancelled due to the pandemic
Victoria and Albert Museum backtracks on plans to cut its National Art Library staff
The announcement was met with public outrage prompting more than 10,000 people to sign a petition against the cuts
Museums have hastily cut their staff to save money—what will happen when visitors return and they need them back?
With vaccines now being deployed and a return to normality on the horizon, institutions may find they have been shortsighted in letting their employees go
Goldsmiths art school—alma mater of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst—‘on edge of a precipice’
Lecturers have stopped assessing students after management consultants propose mass overhaul
Curators responsible for Queen’s art collection lose their jobs in Covid-19 cost-cutting exercise
Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures post, held by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, will be ‘lost and held in abeyance’
London's Southbank Centre rehires 40 workers who lost their jobs in the wake of Covid-19
Staff who have been made redundant are being recruited again following extension of furlough job retention scheme by UK government
Tate will cut 120 jobs to 'survive crisis'
The institution has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme but could ‘move to compulsory redundancy in 2021’
National Trust—UK's largest conservation charity—to cut 1,300 jobs
The coronavirus-hit heritage body looks to save around £100m through redundancies
London's Victoria and Albert Museum set to cut at least 103 jobs to 'ensure its survival', director says
Museum says it is in "its worst financial position on record" because of coronavirus
Ten artists who won Turner bursaries from Tate 'fully support' museum's striking workers
Open letter says that redundancies contradict Tate’s commitment to "champion the richness of art for everyone"
Tate will axe more than 300 jobs from its commercial arm next month
Director Maria Balshaw says the organisation has been left with “no option” but to resize as visitor figures and revenues plunge due to the pandemic
Strike action looms at Tate and Southbank Centre as unions fight restructuring plans
Around 600 jobs are set to be axed across both sites as financial fallout from coronavirus pandemic intensifies
'Brutal' planned redundancies at London's Southbank Centre called out in open letter
Signatories claim cuts will disproportionately affect Bame staff and question chief executive’s salary