Months after current director Nicholas Penny announced that he would step down this summer, the National Gallery in London has found a new director in Gabriele Finaldi, currently the deputy director at the Prado in Madrid. The announcement comes as museum workers are planning yet another strike to protest plans to outsource visitor services to a private company. He was picked from a shortlist of candidates at institutions from across Europe and the United States—ha, just kidding, the British would never consider an American to run the National Gallery, that's ridiculous. We can choose a Singapore-born, Cambridge-raised, Oxford-educated full-blown Brit to run the most storied and beloved institution in America, but no, it does not work the other way.![]()
