Departures at high-profile Barcelona museum provoke anger in art world

Hundreds sign petition after the jobs of Tanya Barson and Pablo Martinez, two senior figures at Macba, are axed

A row has broken out in the international art world over the departures of Tanya Barson, the English curator, and Pablo Martinez, the head of programmes, from the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Macba).

The pair departed on 16 July, the day after Elvira Dyangani Ose, the director of the Showroom in London, was appointed as the museum's new director.