Former Uffizi director Eike Schmidt said he would run the city "according to corporate criteria, without ideology."

The Guardian called Schmidt's decision "ironic."

Here's what we're reading this morning.

Here's what we're reading this morning.

Here's what we're reading this morning.

Following the terrorist attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis last March, Seifallah Lasram, the city’s mayor, has entered into a cross-cultural partnership with the mayor of Turin, Italy

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Eike Schmidt, a German art historian currently working at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, has been named director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Schmidt will be the first non-Italian