Scottish Ballet has announced that Steven Roth, chief executive of West Australian Ballet, has been newly appointed as Scottish Ballet’s executive director.
He will take up his post at Scotland’s national dance company in March 2016.
Mr Roth will work along side chief executive and artistic director Christopher Hampson.
The executive director position will have a focus on "strategic vision and commercial success".
He said: "It is a great pleasure for me to be taking on the role of Executive Director of Scottish Ballet, and to work with CEO/ Artistic Director, Christopher Hampson, the board and staff to realise the vision and ambitions for the company, whose progress I have followed for some time.
"Scottish Ballet has established an impressive reputation for its quality performances and adventurous programming and I am thrilled to have this opportunity. I have visited Scotland many times, and I now look forward to getting to know the company, our audiences and supporters."
www.scottishballet.co.uk
The judges of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced.
The panel of five is chaired by Amanda Foreman, biographer, historian and presenter of the recent BBC series, The Ascent of Woman.
Foreman judged the prize in 2012, under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Stothard. Her four fellow judges are a critic, a novelist, a poet and an actor.
The 2016 panel is Ms Foreman, Jon Day, Critic and Lecturer in English at King's College London, specialising in modernist fiction; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist and Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent; David Harsent, poet and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton, winner of 2014 T.S. Eliot prize; Olivia Williams, actor, currently starring in a National Theatre’s production of Harley Granville-Barker's Waste.
2016 is the 48th year of the prize, which was launched in 1969.
The 2016 judging panel will be looking for the best novel of the year, selected from entries published in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016.
www.themanbookerprize.com
In keeping with a tradition now stretching over a century, New Year’s Day at the Scottish National Gallery will be marked by the opening of Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest, an annual display of works by the artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851).
The collection was bequeathed to the Gallery in 1900 by Henry Vaughan, a London art collector.
Vaughan stipulated that the 38 works could not be subjected to permanent display, since continual exposure to light would result in their fading.
Instead, these precious works were to be exhibited to the public “all at one time, free of charge, during the month of January”, when daylight in Edinburgh is at its lowest levels.
All of the works will be exhibited and Turner in January runs throughout the month
Also joining those from the bequest is the work East View of Fonthill Abbey, Noon (1800), a view of a mansion in rural Wiltshire, which was accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 1988 and loaned to National Trust for Scotland at Brodick Castle.
www.nationalgalleries.org
Three museum collections in Scotland have been granted a new official status.
The Highland Folk Museum collection, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Kirkcudbright Artists’ Collection have been awarded Recognised Collections of National Significance status by Museum Galleries Scotland.
The Highland Folk Museum was the first open air museum in the UK and 2015 marks their 80th anniversary.
Glasgow Women’s Library is the only museum dedicated to women’s history in the UK.
Kirkcudbright’s association with the Glasgow art movement started when several artists, including Glasgow Boys and Scottish Colourists, such as Samuel Peploe and Francis Cadell, based themselves in the area.
Museums Galleries Scotland manages the Recognition Scheme on behalf of the Scottish Government.
The announcement brings the total of Recognised Collections of National Significance to 46.
www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
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