Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director

Frances Morris has been appointed the new director of Tate Modern, a few months before the gallery opens a £260m extension. She is currently the director responsible for Tate’s international collection. Morris, who studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, worked at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol and joined Tate as a curator in 1987. She later became head of displays at Tate Modern and was jointly responsible for the inaugural presentation at its opening in 2000. The most recent