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Leadership

Royal Academy launches recruitment drive for new chief executive

Axel Rüger to move on to the Frick Collection in New York

Profile | ‘There’s a sense of culture being under attack’

Former MP Tristram Hunt, now director of the V&A, on why he left politics and the challenges of leadership in the era of the culture wars

Former global Frieze director to head up National Portrait Gallery

Victoria Siddall to take up post of director this autumn

Profile | Listen. Learn. Act.

Simon Stephens talks to community activist Michelle Charters, who is now leading a revamp of the world’s first standalone international slavery museum

Head of Glasgow Life Museums announces retirement

Duncan Dornan is stepping down after nine years in the role

British Museum director wants to tackle Parthenon marbles issue

Nicholas Cullinan discusses contested objects, sponsorship and thefts in Radio 4 interview

Moves | All change at the top

Longstanding directors step down from People's History Museum and National Waterfront Museum

Sally Angel appointed chief executive of Jewish Museum London

TV and film producer will take over from acting director Sue Shave on 1 July

Horniman Museum and Gardens appoints new chief executive

Gordon Seabright joins London museum from Creative Land Trust

Profile | ‘You could almost touch the change that was possible’

Clore Leadership director Hilary Carty on creativity, careers – and how culture helped win the London 2012 Olympic bid

Radical Museums | S2E1: Leonie Bell

Simon Stephens meets Leonie Bell, the director of V&A Dundee

British Museum starts hunt for new director

Mark Jones's replacement will lead organisation following 'tough year'