Hepworth Wakefield’s Director, Simon Wallis, to Become Royal Academy’s New Secretary and Chief Executive

Simon Wallis Named Secretary and CEO of Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has announced Simon Wallis as its new secretary and CEO, effective this September. Wallis, the director of the Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire, England, arrives as the RA continues to struggle to regain its postpandemic footing, having slashed its workforce by 15 percent this past April. He will fill the […]

Peggy Guggenheim's influential—and short-lived—London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and at London's Royal Academy

Among the highlights in the exhibition opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice next year will be a painting created by a teenage Lucian Freud

Hepworth Wakefield’s Director, Simon Wallis, to Become Royal Academy’s New Secretary and Chief Executive

Simon Wallis, the director of the Hepworth Wakefield, has been announced as the new secretary and chief executive of London’s Royal Academy of Arts (RA). In September, he’ll step into the shoes of Axel Rüger, who departed his role last October to become the director of the Frick Collection in New York. “As the world’s oldest and foremost artist-led organization, the extraordinary talent and vision of the Royal Academicians, and their team, leads…