InterviewA brush with
Walter Benjamin, Voltaire and Mozart: art historian Arturo Galansino on his cultural influences
The director of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi tells us about his favourite books, artists and why he likes RAI TV
Newscoronavirus
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt has contracted coronavirus
Museum chief is asymptomatic and says he will continue working in quarantine
NewsAppointments
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts appoints new director
Stéphane Aquin faces the challenge of restoring stability after Nathalie Bondil’s disputed removal
CommentMuseums & Heritage
Visionary leaders, big business and the digital boom: 30 years that changed museums
On The Art Newspaper’s anniversary, Donatien Grau reflects on the radical expansion of museums' financial, political and cultural influence
NewsMuseum directors
Lacma has put its director’s spacious $6.57m home on the market
A more modest Los Angeles dwelling seems to be lined up for Michael Govan
NewsAppointments & departures
Six women, one foreigner: Italy appoints 13 new museum and heritage directors
Culture minister Dario Franceschini reverses trend for appointing foreign leaders for its leading institutions
NewsMuseum directors
Employees at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts argue that director’s ouster was justified
In a letter, over 100 current and former staff members say she presided over chaos, harassment and intimidation
InterviewMusée du Louvre
'I am not too worried by crowd problems': Louvre director predicts visitor numbers will drop by 80%
Jean-Luc Martinez believes that capitalising on the museum's permanent collection will be key to recovery
NewsInterview
Kaywin Feldman on how America's National Gallery of Art will 'attract the nation and reflect it, too'
The Washington museum's first female director is breaking down old silos and diversifying the staff, collection and exhibitions
NewsMuseum directors
Udo Kittelmann will leave Berlin Nationalgalerie next year
The museum director, who manages five Berlin museums in his current role, will not renew his contract which expires in October 2020
ArchiveMuseum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Young collectors collaborate for MoCA
The Director’s Council comprises 25 to 30 names from the fashion, entertainment and finance industries.
ArchiveNazi loot
Tate’s director criticises government report on Nazi loot
Nicholas Serota says the document, which recommends the restitution of a Constable from the gallery’s collection, contains multiple inaccuracies
ArchiveMoscow
Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum
Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow
ArchiveTate Britain
Room with a view tops off Tate Britain’s revamp
Penelope Curtis, the gallery’s director, aims to accentuate the strengths of the collection and the building
ArchiveLacma
LA director Michael Govan to rehang Pinault’s art
Venice exhibition will draw on works from Pinault's vast collection
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Collectors' gift of Hockney and Freud to the Tate honours its director
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker have conferred an exceedingly generous donation on the gallery
ArchiveMuseums
An analysis of the mission statements of leading US art museums exposes collective search for purpose
The words chosen by directors reflect a desire to quash ambiguity and carve out their space in the contemporary art landscape
ArchiveMartin Roth
We have an obligation to share collections abroad says V&A director
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
ArchiveWomen in art
Fewer women lead museum boards in Norway
Museum mergers have cut numbers
ArchiveMuseum directors
Interview with Tate's Penelope Curtis on her vision for the gallery: Avoiding the cliché of combining old and new
Making more of Tate Britain’s building and rehanging the collection
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Mark Jones to step down as director at V&A
End of an era of modernisation
ArchiveMuseums
Italian to run Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art
Poland appoints first foreign museum director
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
News from London: Quinn’s polymorphous perversity and Joffe’s secret shop
A night at the Turk’s head, a farewell to Tate Modern’s bon viveur, and the only party to support on election night
ArchiveTate Modern
Chris Dercon as Tate Modern's new director
Outgoing director Vicente Todoli is off to seek new challenges
ArchiveValencia
Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración director steps down
Follows censorship controversy
ArchiveJeffrey Deitch
Deitch: first glimpse of plans for Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art could see Ofili's Tate survey enter its doors
ArchiveJeffrey Deitch
Jeffrey Deitch bags top job as director of MoCA, Los Angeles
Gallerist turns museum director
ArchiveMuseum directors
Knives out for Pinault over resignation of Palazzo Grassi director
After director quits, billionaire accused of grandstanding his private collection
ArchiveTate Britain
News bites: the art world celebrates, commemorates, curates, complains, and ... stinks
Dr Penelope Curtis is a renowned scholar but also has a track record—as an exhibited artist
ArchiveUllens Center for Contemporary Art
Conveyor belt of directors continues as the world wonders, what is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
Since it opened last November, four out of five senior curators and directors have left and one has apparently been redeployed
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA zeroing in on contemporary art with new associate director position
The former head of the Walker Art Centre takes up the newly created post next year
ArchiveApril 2007
MoMA defends director’s secret pay
Glenn Lowry received more than $5m through a separate trust which the New York museum's trustees argue was “legal and ethical”
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA’s secret fund for director
Trust payment “raises serious questions”
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Tate director heads to Houston instead of Miami
Serota takes a mysterious trip
ArchiveProvenance
US museum directors debate antiquities provenance dilemma
Should museums acquire objects without provenance, which may have been looted? Yes, say several panelists
ArchiveFeatures
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
ArchiveIran
Sami Azar reinstated as director of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art following protests by artists
“This is the only time in Iran that a cultural manager has been supported by artists like this”, he tells The Art Newspaper
ArchiveIran
How Sami-Azar, head of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, has been the mediator that Iranian artists yearned for
With the view that creative outlet precedes change, Sami-Azar has begun to thaw segregationist policies that bar Iranian artists from international acclaim
ArchiveIran
Ali-Reza Sami Azar, director of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, has stepped down
Whilst the motivation behind his departure is unexplained, his career , driven by his reformist values, has left its mark on Iranian culture
ArchiveLetters
Letter: Director argues MoMA is misrepresented
From Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
A new international role for the Whitney under Adam Weinberg
The museum's new director has assembled his curatorial team and is preparing to steer it on a radical new course
ArchiveSmithsonian Institution
Smithsonian reshuffle elevates status of art museums to that of scientific and historical study
The five art museums run by the federal body are now overseen by just one senior manager, Hirshhorn director Ned Rifkin
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Tate director, Nicholas Serota: Recent art is patrimony too
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
ArchiveMuseums
Official recognition for Prado director sacked for signing petition against 1991 war in Iraq
"I served with all my might", said Alfonso Perez Sanchez
ArchiveDisasters & destruction
Philippe de Montebello on the sack of the Iraq Museum: “Is it sensible for all the eggs to be in one basket?”
The Art Newspaper speaks to the director of the Metropolitan about the historical significance of the Iraq Museum's plunder and how disasters of its kind can be dealt with
ArchiveMarch 2003
The Dulwich Picture Gallery organises sponsored walk to meet £100,000 shortfall in annual budget
Museum director will don Clarks shoes and fill his pockets with Kendal Mint cakes for the 150-mile trek
ArchiveTate
Tate poaches director of Van Abbemuseum
John Debbaut joins Nicholas Serota at Tate
ArchiveNicholas Serota
In defence of Tate: Gainsborough acquisitions
Tate Director Nicholas Serota comments on recent criticism
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Gainsborough's House director Hugh Belsey on competing with Tate: Goliath wins
Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?
ArchiveVicente Todoli
Interview with Tate Modern's new director Vicente Todoli: “Globalisation is the essential spirit of art”
The Spaniard speaks on his 20 years of experience and his visions of the future
ArchiveVicente Todoli
The highest profile vacancy in the art world has finally been filled with the appointment of Vicente Todoli as the new director of Tate Modern
A Spaniard for Tate Modern
ArchiveMuseums
San Francisco MoMA has new director
Mr Benezra comes to the city's Museum of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago
ArchiveNews
New director for the Warburg Institute
Charles Hope is to succeed Nicholas Mann
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The new director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mark Jones, says,“I want to get curators back into the heart of decision-making”
V&A in search of global partners
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Coins and medals expert appointed to Victoria & Albert Museum
Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland
ArchiveWhitechapel Gallery
News from London: Whitechapel gallery celebrates its centenary with a new director while Michael Landy has a breakdown in Marble Arch
Meanwhile, Tracey Emin pushes up the bids in Islington, and there are rumblings at the Royal Academy
ArchiveNational Trust
Fiona Reynolds is the new director general of Britain’s leading heritage charity
'I love the passion here'
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A looking for new director
Alan Borg's contract extended until next year
ArchiveIwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick on her time with Tate and the future of Whitechapel
The number two position at Tate Modern might satisfy most curators but Blazwick has given it up to direct the Whitechapel Art Gallery
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
The rebirth of Florence's Villa Stibbert
Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory
ArchiveTate Modern
A whole new neighbourhood of art: Tate Modern invigorates the South Bank
Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art
ArchiveBerlin State Museums
New chief Klaus-Dieter Lehmann wants more autonomy for Berlin’s State Museums
The incoming chair of the Preussischer Kulturbesitz thinks change is needed, but collector Heinz Berggruen defends outgoing museum director’s record
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Opinion: Martin Borg should stop wasting time and money on his plan for a £70 million Libeskind extension
No go for the V&A Libeskind
ArchiveMuseums
Tate Modern's first director is Lars Nittve
The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ArchiveInterviews
First Interview with MoMA's new director Glenn Lowry on modernising the Modern
Gertrude Stein asks: museum or modern? MoMA’s director replies
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Dear Alan Borg: An open letter to the V&A's new director
Suggestions from a former Assistant Keeper
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
London, Alan Borg—a safe choice for the Victoria and Albert Museum
Medievalist director of the Imperial War Museum, an able fund-raiser, chosen by the Trustees
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Six years ago, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll sacked four keepers of curatorial departments and other staff. One of those keepers assesses her achievements
Has the V&A lost its head?
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum director to become Vice Chancellor of UEA
East Anglia University lures Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
ArchiveMuseum directors
John Rothenstein, the Tate Gallery’s longest serving director, dies
Douglas Cooper v. the Knight Commander of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle: round one
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Nick Serota on his second Tate rehang and his vision for what will be “one of the great museums of late twentieth-century art”
Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook
ArchiveWhitney Museum of American Art
The vision for The Whitney under new leadership: less isolationist; diverse, rather than deep
David Ross, the new director reveals his ideas
CommentMuseums
A new kind of museum is emerging—here's what the future holds
International museum leaders are confronting manifold challenges in the wake of Covid-19 and innovating in six principal ways, writes András Szántó
András Szántó