Press: selection committee recommends general director for National Gallery

A selection committee seeking a new general director of the National Gallery has recommended economist Vladimír Rösel to the post, the Czech Press Agency reports. The final decision will rest on Minister of Culture Jiří Besser, who received the ten-member committee’s proposal on Friday morning; a decision on who is to run the institution is expected in the coming days. The committee has reportedly weighed five candidates to replace the outgoing director, well-known public figure Milan Knížák, among them art historian Jiří Fajt and the director of the Moravian Gallery Marek Pokorný. The new director of the National Gallery is to be named by June 1.