Alex Farquharson, above, had established Nottingham Contemporary ‘as one of the leading galleries in the UK’, according to Sir Nicholas Serota, director of Tate. Photograph: Tate Britain

Alex Farquharson was founding director of Nottingham Contemporary, joining the organisation in 2007 before the gallery opened to the public two years later. It started with a David Hockney show and artists exhibitions, varied from JMW Turner to Turner Prize winners Steve McQueen and Mark Leckey and now, Farquharson becomes a new director Tate Britain.

Farquharson, 45, replaces Curtis whose tenure at Tate Britain was often railed at by critics. She was widely praised for the gallery’s rehang and for overseeing a £45m renovation, but the exhibition programme was often seen as wanting. One critic, the Sunday Times writer Waldemar Januszczak went as far as calling for her to be sacked: “Curtis has to go. She really does.”....Continue Reading

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