Is Italy's government meddling in who runs top museums?
Cultural figures voice concern about culture ministry’s appointments to run institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera
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Cultural figures voice concern about culture ministry’s appointments to run institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera
The Florence museum chief has been named director of Naples's Capodimonte with new leaders also appointed in Milan and Rome as part of right-wing government strategy
A selection committee appointed by Italy’s Ministry of Culture on December 15 revealed a change in leadership at ten of the country’s major museums, with directors not in possession of an Italian passport being shown the exit.
Italy has appointed ten new Italian directors to lead its top museums, with the recently naturalized Eike Schmidt heading to Naples.
Eike Dieter Schmidt, the current director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and a possible candidate in mayoral elections in the Tuscan regional capital next year, has been chosen by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to be the new director of the Capo... (ANSA)