DIRECTOR OF UK’S BALTIC GALLERY STEPS DOWN

The Scandinavian director of an iconic art gallery that was supposed to do for Gateshead what the Guggenheim has done for Bilbao has quit his post to go to Norway, Ian Burrell writes in The Independent. Sune Nordgren has stepped down after six years in charge of Baltic, a former flour mill that was converted into a gallery for contemporary art at a cost of forty-six million pounds (seventy-seven million dollars).