"Ms Saltzman was appointed with great fanfare as a senior artistic leader, with a mandate to shape the Barbican's artistic vision and deepen its relationship with communities. Her departure, after a comparatively short time in post and coinciding with the arrival of a new Chief Executive, raises serious questions about the institution's commitment to sustaining global majority leadership at the highest levels."
"Saltzman, who became director of arts and participation at the Barbican in February 2024, is leaving the institution amid a significant leadership change a few weeks after its new CEO joined. She was recently named as one of the 40 most influential women working in the arts in the UK, and was described as the driving force behind the organisation. Her departure comes months after she unveiled a five-year creative vision for the Barbican."
"In the last 18 months she had become the Barbican's public face, laying out her vision in several interviews. She was vocal about the need for London's cultural institutions to have leadership reflecting the diverse city they inhabit. We are actually in a new wave of next-generation leadership that hopefully is going to shift the model, she said in 2024."
More than 170 cultural figures, including Salman Rushdie, John Akomfrah and Pankaj Mishra, signed an open letter expressing concern over Devyani Saltzman's departure from the Barbican. Saltzman became director of arts and participation in February 2024 and will leave in May following a significant leadership change shortly after the arrival of a new CEO. She was named among the 40 most influential women in UK arts, described as a driving force, and had unveiled a five-year creative vision. The signatories — global majority creative and cultural leaders and allies — called the curtailment of her tenure alarming and questioned the institution's commitment to sustaining global majority leadership. The Barbican declined to comment on individual staffing matters.
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