PRESIDENT OF CONDé NAST NAMED VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM’S NEW CHAIRMAN

Nicholas Coleridge, the president of Condé Nast publishers, has been appointed by British Prime Minister David Cameron as the new chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, according to Martin Bailey at the Art Newspaper. Coleridge, a current trustee of the V&A since 2012, will take over in November from Paul Ruddock, who has been chairman since 2007.

When Coleridge begins his four-year term in his new post, he will be working with V&A director Martin Roth to develop plans for the museum’s proposed new branch on the former Olympic site in east London. Other major projects include completion of the new entrance and extension at the South Kensington museum by 2017, and the opening of the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee the following year.