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\n\tHelen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n
\n\tLegg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution\u2019s exhibitions, collection, and public programs.<\/p>\n
\n\tHer tenure at the Tate Liverpool began in 2018. Under her leadership, the museum underwent a $46 million renovation, closing in 2023 for a \u201creimagining\u201d of the building. It was originally set to reopen last year, but funding delays pushed the relaunch to 2027, when it will open with a exhibition of works by British-Indian artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman. The new Tate Liverpool will feature an art hall built for large-scale installations, the museum said.<\/p>\n
\n\tPrior to the Tate, Legg served as director of Spike Island in Bristol, England, overseeing exhibitions for Charlotte Prodger, Haroon Mirza, Cevdek Erek, Aur\u00e9lien Froment, and, most notably, Lubaina Himid, who went on to receive a Turner Prize nomination for her outing at the institution.\u00a0As ARTnews<\/em>\u2018s Alex Greenberger wrote upon her appointment to the Tate, Legg\u2019s tenure at Spike Island solidified its place as \u201cone of the most important contemporary art venues in England.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSimon Wallis, the chief executive of the Royal Academy, said that Legg was the \u201cideal\u201d canddiate, who is \u201chighly respected in the art world and has a proven track record in delivering exceptional exhibitions.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Royal Academy has had its ups and downs as of late. Its survey of Kerry James Marshall last fall was celebrated, but earlier in the year, it was forced to conduct layoffs affecting 15 percent of the workforce, due to the institution\u2019s lack of government funding. The RA is solely funded by ticket sales, donations, sponsorships, memberships, and other commercial activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/tate-liverpool-director-helen-legg-royal-academy-of-arts-1234777854\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kerry-James-Marshall-65.jpg?w=1024″] Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution\u2019s exhibitions, collection, and public programs. Her tenure at the Tate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1834534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}